Quotes About Introspection

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

One attractive thing about me is that I'm never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

Chi legge è altrove.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

The greatest of sorcerers would be the one who would cast a spell on himself to the degree of taking his own phantasmagoria for autonomous apparitions. Might that not be our case?

The true philosophical act is the slaying of the self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy, therein lies the requirement for all philosophic youths, and only this act answers all criteria and conditions for the transcendental deed.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet

when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

Para Cioran, toda forma de elevación presupone lo inútil: "Una excepción inútil, un modelo al que nadie haga caso -ese es el rango al que debemos aspirar si queremos enaltecernos a nosotros mismos

Make Imam al-Ghazali your therapist.

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.