For it is evident, on a moment's introspection, that thought makes language for itself to live in, just as a snail makes its own shell or a soul makes its own body.

In Mrs. Eddy's personal reminiscences, which are published under the title of "Retrospection and Introspection," much is told of herself in detail that can only be touched upon in this brief sketch.

The next step towards perfection is the cultivation of the person,which must begin with introspection, and ends in harmonious outward expression.

His mind had trampled upon itself in throes of introspection until it was often difficult to say which way the paths of the narrative really led.

The former is observable by introspection, the latter by analysis of bodily secretions and by measurement of the diminution of work, entirely without reference to the way the mind regards the work.

It needs no subtle introspection to assure us that we, the audience, do our own little bit of acting, and instinctively place ourselves at the point of view of a spectator before whose eyes the drama is unrolling itself for the first time.

But she did not ask herself questions, for she had never had the smallest inclination to analysis or introspection.

If the preceding analysis, or something resembling it, be not the correct account of the notion of justice; if justice be totally independent of utility, and be a standard per se, which the mind can recognize by simple introspection of itself; it is hard to understand why that internal oracle is so ambiguous, and why so many things appear either just or unjust, according to the light in which they are regarded.

But they had a strong and abiding influence on the popular stage; they gave it its ghosts, its supernatural warnings, its conception of nemesis and revenge, they gave it its love of introspection and the long passages in which introspection, description or reflection, either in soliloquy or dialogue, holds up the action; contradictorily enough they gave it something at least of its melodrama.

But they had a strong and abiding influence on the popular stage; they gave it its ghosts, its supernatural warnings, its conception of nemesis and revenge, they gave it its love of introspection and the long passages in which introspection, description or reflection, either in soliloquy or dialogue, holds up the action; contradictorily enough they gave it something at least of its melodrama.

There is no subtlety nor introspection, the pale cast of thought falls with no shadow over its scenes.

He was not a great thinker; the thoughts which he embodies in his philosophical poemsthe Essay on Man and the rest, are almost ludicrously out of proportion to the solemnity of the titles which introduce them, nor does he except very rarely get beyond the conceptions common to the average man when he attempts introspection or meditates on his own destiny.

It was an error that grew readily out of the brooding introspection and self-anatomy which marked the religious habit of the times.

Many persons, especially women and intelligent children, take pleasure in introspection, and strive their very best to explain their mental processes.

Retrospection and introspection (Retrospection et introspection)

Retrospection and introspection (Retrospection et introspection)

NOYER, ALBANE. Retrospection and introspection.

Retrospection and introspection.

People never dream of all that is going on in the little heads of the young, for few adults are given to introspection, and those who are incapable of recalling their own feelings under restraint and disappointment can have no appreciation of the sufferings of children who can neither describe nor analyze what they feel.

I see no inconsistency whatever in defending, on the one hand, 'my' activities as unique and opposed to those of outer nature, and, on the other hand, in affirming, after introspection, that they consist in movements in the head.

Introspection, 81. CHAPTER VII.

But self-knowledge does not imply, either in the Greek or Japanese teaching, knowledge of the physical part of man, not his anatomy or his psycho-physics; knowledge was to be of a moral kind, the introspection of our moral nature.

My condition encouraged introspection.

Colney Hatch Hussars' Annual private Introspection.

Instead of living alone or with one companion, he occupied quarters in a big yamên full of officers and mena change which probably benefited a character too given to seriousness and introspection.