Quotes About Introspection

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.