What is Delphi's Oracle?

Three thousand years ago, there were three stone tablets in front of the temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece: "Know yourself", "Don't overdo everything" and "Commitment brings pain". This sentence aroused the deep thought of countless wise men, and was later regarded as "the Oracle of Delphi".

The Oracle of Delphi is the spiritual pillar of the Greeks, which greatly helped to overcome the serious difficulties brought about by the war.

"Know yourself"-know yourself, according to legend, is one of the three proverbs engraved in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, and it is also the most famous one. The other two sentences are: "Don't overdo everything" and "Commitment brings pain".

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Or this sentence comes from one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, Caron of Sparta, Thales, or Socrates.

The traditional interpretation of this sentence is to persuade people to have self-knowledge and understand that people are just people, not gods.

According to Diogenēs Laertius's records, Thales was asked, "What is the most difficult thing?" He replied, "Know yourself." (See The Philosopher's Words and Actions, Volume I)

In the preface of Zur's Moral Genealogy, Nietzsche also made a big fuss about "knowing yourself". He said: "It is inevitable that we are not familiar with ourselves, do not know ourselves, and do not know ourselves. Our eternal judgment is:' The farthest from everyone is ourselves.' "

Baidu Encyclopedia-Delphi Oracle Bone Inscriptions