Home / Quotes / Quote by Sam Keen

Quote by Sam Keen

“I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.”

Quote by Sam Keen

Author

Sam Keen, born in 1931, is a renowned American author whose works span across philosophy, psychology, religion, and anthropology, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

You May Also Like

“The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.”

Thinking Knows Existence Mystery Mysterious

Author:Sam Keen

“At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.”

World Stills Real Religious Products Illusion Conservative Immortality Thirty Upbringing

Author:Sam Keen

“I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.”

People Thinking Kind May Night Dark Ability Supportive Dark Night Ability To Change

Author:Sam Keen

“Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.”

Giving I Can Ideas Real Courses Realizing Successful Satisfaction Luxury Again And Again Disillusion Being Pretty

Author:Sam Keen

“If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Values Culture Term Mythology Who We Are Disillusionment Good Family

Author:Sam Keen

“I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.”

Thinking Way Self Hard Darkness Self Knowledge Entering

Author:Sam Keen

“When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.”

Loses Answers Illusion

Author:Sam Keen

“The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.”

World Order Culture Belief Parent Term Religious Conviction Abyss

Author:Sam Keen

“But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.”

People Influence Frightened

Author:Damien Hirst

“To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.”

People Way Hands Age Night Stage Mark Shame Myth Old Age Useless Officials Our Society Old Fashioned Old People Inability Spotlight Good Night Impotence Center Stage

Author:Sam Keen