Quotes About Introspection

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

No man can see his own prejudices.