Quotes about Introspection

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Hey, God! I hope you're there. I want you to hear my prayer. That graven image on my shelf; Is it really you or just myself? Well, anyway, here it goes: Please keep me on my toes. Help me past my worst mistakes, Doing it for both our sakes, For an example of perfection To the Proctors of my section; Or merely for the Heaven of it, Like bread, for the leaven of it. For whatever reason may incline, Please act for yours and mine.

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.