Meaning of “For what a man is in himself, what…”

The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. The wording belongs to Schopenhauer’s contrast between intellectual and ordinary forms of leisure.

Unto This Last, fourth essay; Project Gutenberg #36541. The line follows Ruskin’s distinction between production and consumption and retains the nineteenth-century political-economy setting.

What Is Man?, opening machine-and-metal analogy; the Old Man uses iron and gold to argue for limits within his deterministic model of human development.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X, “The Lobster Quadrille,” Project Gutenberg #11. Alice says this to the Mock Turtle while trying to recount a day in which her body, knowledge and sense of identity keep changing; it is character dialogue in a fantasy narrative.

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Letter IX; represented Cassell & Company 1889 text in Project Gutenberg #3529. The frozen catalog reads “What a long time it requires to know ourselves, and yet every one has more of this knowledge than he is willing to own,” while the represented witness reads “What a long time it requires to know ourselves; and yet almost every one has more of this knowledge than he is willing to own, even to himself.” This collection retains its legacy shortened wording and explicitly records the omitted “almost” / closing phrase rather than silently rewriting it. Wollstonecraft is reflecting on her own solitude, experience and knowledge of the heart.

The Renaissance, Conclusion; Project Gutenberg #2398. The line belongs to Pater’s historically controversial conclusion on experience and culture.