Quotes About Introspection

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

Rather than listen to what other people tell you, find out what is really important to you and just be concerned with that

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Manchmal sag' ich mir: dein Schicksal ist einzig; preise die übrigen glücklich—so ist noch keiner gequält worden.—dann lese ich einen Dichter der Vorzeit, und es ist mir, als säh' ich in mein eignes Herz. Ich habe so viel auszustehen! Ach, sind denn Menschen vor mir schon so elend gewesen?

Statt irgendetwas zu sagen, stand er auf und suchte aus eng zusammengekniffenen Augen den Himmel ab. Er wusste nicht, warum er das tat, aber er spürte, dass es wichtig war.

I know neither day nor night, and the whole world fades around me.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.

I was thrown out of college. I cheated on my metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Every once in a while I feel that I am at two with the universe.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

I am two with nature.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal