Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.