Quotes About Introspection

La falta de comodidades es fundamental para que el hombre se sienta bien consigo mismo

Dagboekschrijvers als ik schrijven hun dagboek met de onuitgesproken bedoeling zichzelf als een ander voor zich te kunnen zien… Eigenlijk zijn ze geen dagboekschrijvers, maar zelfportrettisten, of een mengeling van die twee.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

More generally, when we find ourselves irritated by someone's shortcomings, we should pause to reflect on our own shortcomings.

Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.

He adds that the worse a man is, the less likely he is to accept constructive criticism.

He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

We should become self-aware: We should observe ourselves as we go about our daily business, and we should periodically reflect on how we responded to the day's events. How did we respond to an insult? To the loss of a possession? To a stressful situation? Did we, in our responses, put Stoic psychological strategies to work? •

Thus, Epictetus advises us to form "a certain character and pattern" for ourselves when we are alone. Then, when we associate with other people, we should remain true to who we are.

What ailment of yours have you cured today? What failing have you resisted? Where can you show improvement?"1

the people whose views we will examine in the following pages—have unanimously drawn the conclusion that the best way—indeed, perhaps the only way—to attain lasting happiness is not to change the world around us or our place in it but to change ourselves.

N?u anh th?c s? mu?n thoát kh?i nh?ng th? làm cho anh phi?n mu?n, ?i?u anh ?ang c?n làm không ph?i là chuy?n ??n m?t n?i khác mà là tr? thành m?t con ng??i khác

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.

They lived autobiographies

They, whether steel kings or Bonapartes, cannot, after a certain age, endure solitude. For it is the solitude, even though strictly relative in the majority of cases, that kills them, or sends them on the road to Waterloo.

Who can enjoy acting in an empty theater ?

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.