Quotes About Introspection

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Life is only therapy.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Philosophy is an act of living.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.