Quotes About Introspection

The legs, for example of that chair – how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for 'I' was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were 'they') being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Si la mayoría de nosotros permanecemos ignorantes de nosotros mismos, es porque el autoconocimiento es doloroso y preferimos los placeres de la ilusión

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

Cine naiba se crede el ?". Întrebarea nu i se adresa lui Cézanne în particular, ci speciei umane în general. Cine se credeau oamenii ?

The wound is mortal and is mine.

zippicamiknicks

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

sententiously.

La visión de aquel rostro transfigurado era a la vez una acusación y un irónico recordatorio de su propio aislamiento. Bernard se sentía ahora tan desdichadamente aislado como cuando había empezado el Servicio; más aislado a causa de su vaciedad no llenada, de su saciedad mortal. Separado y fuera de la armonía, en tanto que los otros se fundían en el Ser Más Grande.

Curious that one should be dumb before intimates and open one's mind to an all but stranger.

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

Ne sebeple olursa olsun hatan?z?n üzerinde kara kara düÅŸünmeyin. Temizlenmenin yolu çamurda yuvarlanmak deÄŸildir.

Dünyada düzeltebileceÄŸiniz, daha iyi yapmay? baÅŸarabileceÄŸiniz ilk ve son önemli kimse kendinizsiniz.

One of the first things that Homo Sapiens did with his newly developed rationality and self-consciousness was to set them to work finding out ways to by-pass analytical thinking and to transcend or, in extreme cases, temporarily obliterate, the isolating awareness of the self.

But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though . . ." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?" But

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

If] you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures... . You do not invent these creatures ... . They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them.

No, el verdadero problema es: <<¿Por qué no puedo hablar?>> O, ya que en realidad sé perfectamente por qué, la pregunta adecuada es ¿qué sensación experimentaría si pudiera, si fuese libre, si no me hallara esclavizado por mi condicionamiento?

fretsawyers and

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul.

I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease -that of thinking.