Quotes About Introspection

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

I think personal style starts from within because it´s a philosophy and an attitude. If you´re honest and true to yourself, you will have the best sense of personal style.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.