Quotes About Introspection

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

There's something in everyone only they know.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

Asking "Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? " opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.