Quotes About Introspection

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Zichzelf veroordelen is niet minder pretentieus dan zichzelf vergeven.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself. Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties

En los subterráneos del alma, como en los desvanes de las casas viejas, no se encuentran sino ratones muertos entre muebles rotos.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

Civilization is what is born when the soul does not surrender to its congenital vulgarity.

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of industrial society.

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches "intellectual isolation".

La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».

Humanizing humanity again will not be an easy task after this long orgy of divinity.