Quotes About Introspection

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Background for Humans

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

It's easy to count other people's mistakes. Make your own if you can.