Quotes About Introspection

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

Already a system is being constructed that explains our perpetual solitude: if we remain alone among those who were supposed to be like us, it is because we cannot find any creature spontaneous enough. No one capable of equaling our primal states and enriching our existence with some magnificent and brutal enchantment. I am alone in a covered gallery.

Everything is self-evident.

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

We are ready to deconstruct anything except the idea that we are self-directed and that the persecutors are always the others.

Du reste, il est à remarquer que les philosophes disent souvent des choses beaucoup plus justes quand ils argumentent contre d'autres philosophes que quand ils en viennent à exposer leurs propres vues, et chacun voyant généralement assez bien les défauts des autres, ils se détruisent en quelque sorte mutuellement

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace."

As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them

Being human is a portal into your divinity."

Helping professionals, Therapists, Life Coaches, Healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power that's gained from you developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change."

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected from yourself.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

So it is to be another Christmas, then, and another New Year's on my own. Well, it is all right. I have grown used to it, have come almost to prefer it. Those days for most adults, it is generally acknowledged, and perhaps for all but the fewest children are so grim. Along with birthdays and of course Thanksgiving, only worse. Why observe them, then, unless one is for the sake of the children, or the office, or someone else's sake, obliged to. Well, no reason.

The world is everything that is the case. And in the second place because. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.

The slowest-talking man I know tends to loom in elevator doors, in hallways, booths, and other narrow places.