Quotes About Introspection

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Aren't we all monsters inside?

Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, "Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others...

She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.

I witnessed my life unfolding like someone who has awkwardly stumbled in after the movie has started. I sensed that something important had been revealed in the opening sequence, some essential knowledge everyone else was privy to that was being kept from me.

we can use self-observation to keep cognitive dissonance in check. To some degree, we can compensate for it by: (1) knowing it exists; (2) knowing what our bias is likely to be; and (3) applying metacognition—the "What am I not thinking about?" question. Be as detached as you can be, as if you were asked to debate both sides of the issue.

cogitationis poenam nemo patitur!1.

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

We know the man by the object[.] Even the moon, the sun, stars, … [t]hat he sees them is an evidence of his own nature.

I cannot so abstract myself from myself as to judge myself … ; another has an impartial judgement; through him I correct, complete, extend my own judgement, my own taste, my own knowledge.

Je mehr sich unsere Bekanntschaft mit guten Büchern vergrößert, desto geringer wird der Kreis von Menschen, an deren Umgang wir Geschmack finden.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der das Leben mit Fragen so stark belastet, daß es in sich geht: daß es in seine eigene Tiefe hinabsinkt.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought will never cease to inquire into all things accessible to human intelligence. And in the long run thought must determine action.

I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

It is common with narrow-minded people to reflect upon every respect in which other people differ from themselves. The

Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.