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A good quote from Socrates, the sage, emphasizes that he intuitively knew and understood that we are not inside the body, but the body is inside us. Because of this understanding, many ancient sages emphasized that to know yourself, you need to study yourself from the inside. “A person's peace and contentment are not outside of him, but within himself.” With respect.
I believe that the meaning of this phrase is that each person must first know himself,his inner world, and then, on the basis of his inner knowledge, begin to know the world around him.In modern language, “first understand yourself and then…”, here is something from this series
At one time, Socrates studied the peculiarities of the thinking of the inhabitants of ancient Athens. The conclusions and observations that he made are quite interesting and important.
� � � Socrates could, by offering to express a certain thesis to a person, which he considers to be obviously correct, by leading questions, lead this person to the fact that he himself formulated a conclusion directly opposite to the original one.
� �Socrates saw that many of people's beliefs, things that they think are obvious or repeatedly proven by practice, are superficial, and the relationships between these beliefs do not stand up to any test of logic. But if Socrates, as a reasonable person, tried to understand these contradictions, to get to more correct and general ideas, then ordinary people were quite satisfied with what they had. That is, the people Socrates studied believed that it was enough for them to know only a small narrow set of stereotypes, which they were not going to go beyond. The inability to build a complete and consistent picture of the world from the ideas that are accumulated and used in modern society is an obvious reason why we cannot consider the people living in it to be reasonable.�
That is why, realizing that a person does not know himself, does not know his foundations and beliefs, and in most cases they do not even have them, Socrates appeals to a person with the call to ” Know ( Know ) himself.