Quotes About Introspection

It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life.

O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

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What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how few choose the good? The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen.

One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess

I went in search of myself.

You will know that the Lord will come and enter your soul if the doors, which are your senses, are closed…But you will answer that it would be wrong to say "no" to God and he alone is expected. But God comes in some other way of which you know nothing.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness.

Ik word verteerd door levenstwijfel omdat ik niet zou weten waarover je anders moet twijfelen dan over het leven en ik word verteerd door doodsverachting omdat ik niet weet wat je anders zou moeten verachten dan de dood.

Ilse zegt: 'Maar ik dacht dat je... Dat je - hoe heet het - vrij was. Dat je -' 'Dat ben ik ook. In overdrachtelijke zin. Er is een oud...' Ik zie de Japanners opstaan en weggaan - 'Een oud Japans spreekwoord dat zegt: Vrij hoef je niet alleen te zijn als je alleen bent. Het is dan ook in die zin dat ik het begrip 'vrijheid' koester.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

Okay Libya...got all this stuff twirling around in my head

I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.