Quotes About Self-contemplation

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more. He seemed to be going over each step in his mind—each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.

Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion worse.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.

I felt quite uncentered enough on my own, with no outside assistance.

When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.

but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows.