Quotes About Introspection

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Every man heals himself.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.