Quotes about Introspection

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.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.