Introspection Quotes

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself" "Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life" "Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart." "Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end." "The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you." "People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools." "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him" "Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions" "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." "No one can be completely happy with a want of wisdom " "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art" "The truth is when you’re struggling is the most important time to be honest with yourself." "The totality of my discourse, a discourse which is in the end truly my own, concerns my own illness" "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." "We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings" "The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."