Quotes About Introspection

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.

talked to himself under his breath fairly frequently, and often couldn't remember where he had left stuff, as though his mind was too powerful to dwell on the mundane.

Who are you?" he whispered.

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

And you can't be told the essence of a person, anyway. That's something you have to experience

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will continue to exist largely on the surface of life and history. I

Now, to think is to be vulnerable.

To?i avem pove?ti pe care nu vrem s? le spunem.

Nuostabu, kaip tyl?jimas pažadina didžiausias baimes ir priver?ia tik?tis blogiausio.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

There is much to be said for solitude.

A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.

All around us we have the wreckage – metaphorical and real – of all our dreams, our religions, our political ideologies and a thousand other aspirations, all of which in their turn have proved false. And though we have no more illusions or ambitions left, yet we are still here. So what do we do?

And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.

get curious about what you don't know about yourself.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.

humanity is what it is in the recesses of our hearts, and it is what it is in the public square.

your readings are the trees where your fallen leaves would come from. Mind mulch. Cognitive compost.

I don't feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it's fatalism, it's simply Islam. We need Jesus. When the precious doctrines [of Calvinism] are used to perpetuate gloom, severity, introspection, accusations, morbidity, slander, gnat-stringing, and more, the soul is not safe.