7 quotes about Introspection
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21441/view">What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1015/Anita_Brookner">Brookner, Anita</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21442/view">Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1993/Shashi_Deshpande">Deshpande, Shashi</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21443/view">The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2178/Emile_Durkheim">Durkheim, Emile</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21444/view">The terrible fluidity of self-revelation..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3764/Henry_James">James, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21445/view">The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4516/James_Russell_Lowell">Lowell, James Russell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21446/view">One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5347/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Nietzsche, Friedrich</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/21447/view">But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7842/Virginia_Woolf">Woolf, Virginia</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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