Know thyself · Γνῶθι σεαυτόν

The words at Delphi

Two words carved at the entrance to Apollo’s temple at Delphi, already ancient when Socrates made them his own, still sit at the heart of every true change. Our journey through them travels from the temple and the summer sky to Emerson’s poem, the measure of a person, the golden mean and a practice for your own heart.