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Quotes About Introspection

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.
~ Amy Winehouse
Discontent is the seed of ethics.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
~ Stefan Molyneux
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.
~ Maurice Barres
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky
A man is a god in ruins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
~ Baruch Spinoza
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
~ Antonio Machado
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
~ George Santayana
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
~ Novalis
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
~ Stefan Molyneux
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
~ James Carroll
Every thought is an afterthought.
~ Hannah Arendt
Philosophy is the art of living.
~ Plutarch
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
~ Gelett Burgess
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
~ Blaise Pascal
You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself
~ Ervin Seale
My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
~ Diane Ackerman
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
~ Immanuel Kant
There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.
~ Garth Brooks
Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.
~ Richard Hugo