Quotes about Introspection

We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.

A psycho-neurosis must be understood as the suffering of a human being who has not yet discovered what life means for him

Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.