Quotes About Introspection

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

This question was so unexpected that I instantly let myself be carried away by memories. They began to sail past my eyes, and typically for memories, everything in them seemed better, finer, and happier than in reality. It's strange, but we didn't say a word.

When you live in a place and a time in which certain laws are in effect, then you must observe those laws, but never forgetting that they are only partial systems, never absolute. For the truth is something else, and if a person is not prepared to come to know it, then it may seem frightening and terrible, and that person may curse the day he learned of it. But I do believe that everyone can tell what kind of person he truly is. It is just that deep down, he doesn't want to find out.

Knowledge that is grown only on the outside changes nothing inside a man, or merely changes him on the surface, as one garment is changed for another. But he who learns by taking things inside himself undergoes constant transformation, because he incorporates what he learns into his being.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.

She passed through her childhood blindfolded, picking her way cautiously along, sensitive fingertips stretched out before her to avoid sharp corners and unyielding walls, clinging close to the protection of solitude and isolation.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

I do not apologise for baring my soul (though I did not intend to)

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Thus, my children, after men have travelled through a few stages in vice, shame forsakes them, and returns back to wait upon the few virtues they have still remaining.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.