Inner life · Skopia

Quotes

18

Speech · Autobiography and memoir

Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain's Autobiography · 1910

★ 6.2

To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

De Profundis · 1897

★ 6.1

In the life of each of us, I said to myself there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

1896

★ 5.3

Scripture · Religious literature

The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

1st Chronicles 28:9 · 430 BC

★ 3.9

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Books

1

Zeno's Conscience

1923★ 6.6