#intro

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#does #impulses #introduces #optics #psychoanalysis

Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#introspection #religion #religion

Solitude is not lack. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#communication #inside-out #introvert #lips #lunatic

...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago. ↗

— Edward Beauclerk Maurice

#age

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#highest #ideas #instead #into #introduction

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#forms #introspection #most #rewarding

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

We know we only have so much energy for reaching out; if we’re going to invest, we want it to be good. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh. ↗

— Will Weaver

#life