Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton



When I walked the sacred, hilly, Grecian ground where once the Delphian inscription "Know Thyself" met the pedestrian's gaze, I felt the melancholy peace of this glen-like scene. The fragments of carven stone seemed to reproach the warring races of man, steeped in self-ignorance still.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 6 : The Profane and The Profound > # 159