Quotes About Introspection

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

Our judgements judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul!

all that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

Il faut donc que notre esprit s'excite soi-même à se défaire de sa stupeur et à se reprendre de cette solennelle et immobile surprise qui lui causent le sentiment d'être tout, et l'évidence de n'être rien.

The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

Functioneringsgesprekken zijn de nieuwste versie van de biecht, zij het zonder kans op absolutie.