Quotes About Introspection

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?