Quotes About Introspection

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

I am the wilderness lost in man.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.