Quotes About Introspection

While I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.

There are two things which should be cultivated in the soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest fear.

we become what we contemplate.

The qualities, which a man seeks in his beloved, are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

It is well for one to know more than he says

What do you experience on perceiving yourselves lovely within?

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

You must get yourself so organized that people can't find you and see you to talk with you," he advised. Besides, he "never thought talking to people helped them get well.

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

AS WE THINK, SO WE ARE;

Rosalie lay awake late at night, alone in her unwomaned bed

I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.

I do not know what I will think tomorrow and later; today I feel no distinct emotion.

Nessuno ebbe animo di venire a vedere che cosa fanno gli uomini quando sanno di dover morire.

no hay vanidad mayor que esforzarse en tragarse enteros los sistemas morales elaborados por los demás, bajo otros cielos.

Get up": the illusory barrier of the warm blankets, the thin armor of sleep, the nightly evasion with its very torments drops to pieces around us, and we find ourselves mercilessly awake, exposed to insult, atrociously naked and vulnerable. A

Clausner shows me the bottom of his bowl. Where others have carved their numbers, and Alberto and I our names, Clausner has written: 'Ne pas chercher à comprendre.

Hier, vorübergehend fern von Flüchen und von Schlägen, haben wir die Möglichkeit, wieder zu uns selbst zu finden und nachzudenken, und da wird uns klar, dass wir nie zurückkehren werden. (...) Wir werden nicht zurückkehren. Von hier darf keiner fort, denn er könnte mit dem ins Fleisch geprägten Mal auch die böse Kunde in die Welt tragen, was in Auschwitz Menschen aus Menschen zu machen gewagt haben.

It's just that sometimes, he said, even when the right answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it. You know what I'm sayin'?

So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.