Quotes about Introspection

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.

If anything is to be done, one must try to introduce Christianity into Christendom.

If anything is to be done, one must try to introduce Christianity into Christendom.

Although in this life one may find solace in the crowd from God's radical demands, "In eternity you will look in vain for the crowd. You will listen in vain to find where the noise and the gathering is, so that you can run to it." In actual fact, "For the Infinite One, there is no place, the individual is himself the place.

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world