Quotes about Introspection

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

If you understand life you need a reality check.

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. Why hadn't I noticed this in him? Why did I see only the superficial way he talked about politics or the pedantic way he tasted the wine?

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.