Quotes About Introspect

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

To begin with self-consciousness is to begin with the proposition, "I exist.

AÈ™a stau lucrurile, dar oare ce se petrece înl?untrul nostru se vede È™i din afar?? Un om poart? în suflet un foc imens È™i nimeni nu vine niciodat? s? se înc?lzeasc? la el, iar trec?torii nu desluÈ™esc decât un firicel de fum, sus la gura hornului, È™i-È™i caut? mai departe de drum.

Je t'ai envoyé aujourd'hui mon portrait à moi; il faut le regarder pendant quelque temps, tu verras, j'espère que ma physionomie s'est bien calmée, quoique le regard soit vague davantage qu'auparavant, à ce qui me parait.

To turn the mind inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, so that it will analyse itself, as it were, is indeed very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything like a scientific approach towards the subject. Now

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

And I think a lot more than I used to." "I wouldn't recommend thinking too much." "I don't carry it so far as brooding." "Even pondering is sometimes too far.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

head, casting a look toward

I was never the avid film watcher.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.

you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others...

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

MÍRESE CUIDADOSAMENTE AL ESPEJO.

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.