Oscar Wilde Quotes

The final mystery is oneself.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

The only journey is the one within.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

The longest journey is the journey inward.