Quotes About Self-examination

Ce n'était pas trop de toute une vie pour confronter l'un par l'autre ce monde où nous sommes et ce monde qui est nous.

Like everyone else I have at my disposal only three means of evaluating human existence: the study of self, which is the most difficult and most dangerous method, but also the most fruitful; the observation of our fellowmen, who usually arrange to hide secrets where none exist; and books, with the particular errors of perspective to which they inevitably give rise.

Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.

A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind of citizen—needs to arise now. And quickly. We the People, We the Problem For too many decades, Americans have been chronically distracted by less important things, not bothering to engage in serious self-examination.

In psychological terms, the Buddha's first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.

de ser un varón, no porque tuviese ningún

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

Um rosário de censuras a outras pessoas leva-nos a suspeitar da existência de um rosário de autocensuras de conteúdo idêntico.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

we are not aware of what is most essentially bad in us.

O waste no fears on me; look to thyself.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world

Don't ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don't like what it's reflecting, take accountability and change it.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

One must be honest with himself. Then it will be much better than it is now.