X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Know thyself


Know thyself

Lana and Andy Wachowski used one of the Latin versions (temet nosce) of this aphorism as inscription over the Oracle's door in their movies The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal has his 16th-century alter ego in his letter to Francis Bacon mention a book he intended to call "Nosce te ipsum".


Similar


see also