Quotes about Introspection

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one's drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one's language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.