self-awareness Quotes

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.