Quotes About Introspection

Perhaps I am the only being in the entire universe who feels anything, and all other humans and animals are just mindless robots? Perhaps I am dreaming, and everyone I meet is just a character in my dream? Perhaps I am trapped inside a virtual world, and all the beings I see are merely simulations?

Some people fear that today we are again in mortal danger of massive volcanic eruptions or colliding asteroids. Hollywood producers make billions out of these anxieties. Yes, a big asteroid will probably hit our planet sometime in the next 100 million years, but it is very unlikely to happen next Tuesday. Instead of fearing asteroids, we should fear ourselves.

the real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.

Humans of all creeds would do well to take humility more seriously.

discord in our thoughts, ideas and values compel us to think, re-evaluate and criticise.

Quando a mente aprende a enxergar nossas sensações tais como elas são — ou seja, vibrações efêmeras e inexpressivas —, perdemos o interesse em persegui-las. Pois qual o sentido de correr atrás de algo que desaparece tão rápido quanto surge?

Humans of all creeds would do well to take humility more seriously. And among all forms of humility, perhaps the most important is to have humility before

Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

Puesto que pronto podremos manipular también nuestros deseos, quizá la pregunta real a la que nos enfrentamos no sea «¿En qué deseamos convertirnos?», sino «¿Qué queremos desear?». Aquellos que no se espanten ante esta pregunta es que probablemente no han pensado lo suficiente en ella.

At the entrance of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, pilgrims were greeted by the inscription: 'Know thyself!' The implication was that the average person is ignorant of his true self, and is therefore likely to be ignorant of true happiness. Freud would probably concur.*

A consistência é o parque de diversões das mentes entorpecidas.

If you feel like running down the street crying 'The apocalypse is upon us!', try telling yourself 'No, it's not that. Truth is, I just don't understand what's going on in the world.

Liberal ethics advises us that if it feels good, we should go ahead and do it. Liberal education teaches us to think for ourselves, because we will find all the answers within.

The world of thought, belief and feeling is by definition far more difficult to decipher.

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot questions.

If] you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your Facebook account or with the inner story of the self. Instead, you should observe the actual flow of body and mind [...]. People ask 'Who am I?' and expect to be told a story. The first thing you need to know about yourself, is that you are not a story.

Just like Riley Andersen, most people barely know themselves, and when they try to "listen to themselves" they easily become prey to external manipulations. The voice we hear inside our heads is never trustworthy, because it always reflects state propaganda, ideological brainwashing, and commercial advertisements, not to mention biochemical bugs.

if you wish to obey the old adage and know thyself, you should not waste your time on philosophy, meditation or psychoanalysis, but rather you should systematically collect biometric data and allow algorithms to analyse them for you and tell you who you are and what you should do. The movement's motto is 'Self-knowledge through numbers'.

los humanos deben extraer de sus experiencias internas no solo el sentido de su propia vida, sino también el sentido del universo entero.

The Hindu epic the Bhagavad Gita relates how in the midst of a murderous civil war, the great warrior prince Arjuna is consumed with doubt. Seeing his friends and relatives in the opposing army, he hesitates over whether to fight and kill them. He begins to wonder what good and evil are, who decided it, and what the purpose of human life is.

In the end he came to the realization that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind

they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it.

I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. ReddedilmiÅŸ hiçlik taraf?ndan boÅŸlukla tan??t?r?ld?m.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.