Quotes About Introspection

Pero hoy, se decía Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el año. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejará lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentará a buscarlo

I'm primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don't change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.

By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living - orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.

De camera staat nu op zijn kop. Met mijn voeten hang ik aan de straten van de stad, mijn hoofd zwabbert in de leegte. Trams slaan vonken uit de ruimte. Lantaarnpalen breken los uit het trottoir en storten de diepte in. De regisseur is verliefd geworden op zijn effect en vergeet z'n levensgevaarlijk rondscharrelende hoofdrolspeler. Ik raak verward in de glanzend berijpte takken van een boom.

Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.

La seule fréquentation des mathématiques ne mûrit guère le cÅ"ur ni le caractère.

Il se trouvait prisonnier du passé, enchaîné par des ombres !

I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not a subtle penetrating air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a breath or anything at all that I can image. I am supposing all these things to be nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am a something.

To live well, one must live unseen.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.

to live well you must live unseen