Quotes About Introspection

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.