Introspection

Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

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Be vigilant in attending to yourself, ... that you may set God before you at all times.

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Learn to know thyself, it shall profit thee more than any craft.

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I can't as yet "know myself," as the inscription at Delphi enjoins, and so long as that ignorance remains it seems to me ridiculous to inquire about extraneous matters.

— Introspection

The great duty ‘know thyself,’ which sounds so important, has always seemed to me suspect, like a trick of priests in secret conspiracy who would like to confuse man through unfulfillable demands and lead him away from his proper activity in the external world to a false interior contemplation. A man knows himself insofar as he knows the world, which he perceives only within himself, and himself only within it.

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Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

— Introspection

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

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I can find Greece and Palestine and Italy and England and the Islands, the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

— Introspection

In philosophical anthropology, … where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself ... with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

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The mind sent outside is the origination of suffering.The result of the mind seeing the mind is the cessation of suffering.

— Introspection