Quotes about Introspection

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?

Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

it is worthy of consideration, indeed marvelous, how besides his life in concreto, a person always leads a second in abstracto as well.

to be superior (überlegen) to others in real life, the indispensable condition is to be thoughtful and deliberate (überlegt), in other words, to set to work in accordance with concepts.

I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.