Quotes About Introspection

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

The Voice of silence is louder than any Noise.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

A quienes me preguntan la razón de mis viajes les contesto que sé bien de qué huyo pero ignoro lo que busco

Songez que les principes de votre vie sont en vous-même, et que le courroux de Monsieur Purgon est aussi peu capable de vous faire mourir que ses remèdes de vous faire vivre.

I am strongly moved to fly into some desert to avoid all approach of human creatures

Et leur conclusion fut, que vous feriez bien, De prendre moins de soin des actions des autres, Et de vous mettre, un peu, plus en peine des vôtres. Qu'on doit se regarder soi-même, un fort long temps, Avant que de songer à condamner les gens

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

Let us not apply to ourselves the points of general censure; let us profit by the lesson, if possible, without assuming that we are spoken against.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.