Quotes About Introspection

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Isolation must precede true society.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

If you want to do something healthy for yourself - focus on your internal relationship. A diet, external, or materialistic fix WON'T work.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others, we forget to live our own.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.