Instrospection Quotes

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Ahmad Wahib
“Aku bukan Wahib. Aku adalah me-wahib. Aku mencari, dan terus menerus mencari, menuju dan menjadi Wahib. Ya, aku bukan aku. Aku adalah meng-aku, yang terus menerus berproses menjadi aku.”
Ahmad Wahib, Pergolakan Pemikiran Islam: Catatan Harian Ahmad Wahib

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.

This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Carmen Maria Machado
“What is worse: being locked outside of your own mind, or being locked inside of it?”
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Rolf van der Wind
“It's not the challenges we might face or the potential fading of affection that haunts us. It's the obliteration of our potential selves, of what we could have become, of what we could have shared.”
Rolf van der Wind

Jeferson Tenório
“Às vezes você fazia um pensamento e morava nele. Afastava-se. Construía uma casa assim. Longínqua. Dentro de si. Era esse o seu modo de lidar com as coisas.”
Jeferson Tenório, O avesso da pele

Sylvia Plath
“From here to happiness is a road, flat, upright, distances in between blotted out by vision, yet realized by intelligence.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Mihail Victus
“Nimeni nu e complet rău, continuă să ne asigure unii înțelepți. Eu cred că suntem însămânțați încă de la naștere cu o doză de răutate și întreaga viață ne luptăm să o eliminăm. Să conviețuim împreună, de fapt, să o reducem la tăcere. Ca s-o eliminăm ar însemna să îndepărtăm o parte din noi, să luăm bisturiul și să tăiem fără milă. Am continua apoi să fim noi înșine? Trebuie să existe contraste, pentru a ști ce alegeri să facem. Nu poți ajunge să fii un om bun dacă nu înțelegi ce înseamnă să fii rău. Teoria nu rămâne valabilă totuși în cazul opus. După ce te-ai obișnuit să trăiești în beznă, asta devine normalul pentru tine. Expunerea la lumină îți provoacă disconfort. Te irită.”
Mihail Victus, Fracturi

“Maybe I was just too young to know how to hold all these balls in the air at once without wanting to cry.”
Emma Slade, Set Free: A Life-Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan

“Man, introspecting, saw himself at his real worth, and was not proud.”
Will Lillibridge, A Breath of Prairie, and Other Stories

Hanif Kureishi
“Hubiese querido que mi vida empezara entonces, en aquel preciso instante, cuando estaba preparado para ello”
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

Caitlin Moran
“Junto con la ropa interior el amor es una tarea de las mujeres. Las mujeres se tienen que enamorar. Cunado hablabamos de las grandes tragedias que pueden ocurrirle a una mujer, una vez descartadas la guerra y la enfermedad, la idea que más nos estremece es la de no ser amada, y por tanto que no nos necesiten”
Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman Quick Reads 2021

“When in doubt, the best way to confirm that you are not the problem in a team, in an organization or in any group of people, is to step back, keep your distance and see how they tear themselves apart when they have no one else to blame".”
Rodolfo Peon