Quotes About Reflection

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly my skepticism. On the other hand, I did take away something that I had not fully possessed before: appreciation of the sheer beauty and miracle of being alive, and a humble set of values. All this happened four years ago. Civilization has not altered my ideas. I live more simply now, and with more peace.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

After all, who remembers the Armenians?

The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefully observes his approach but then looks him in the eye, calm and composed.

Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no 'business.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

A man who is indifferent to history is a man without hearing, without sight. Such a man can live, of course - but what a life?

Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.

In scrutinizing the past, we must be careful not to be overly impressed by external results that readily strike the eye, while ignoring the less visible causes of these results.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Considérese cuán funestas son las consecuencias que a diario trae consigo la bastardización judaica de nuestro pueblo y reflexiónese también que este envenenamiento de nuestra sangre, sólo al cabo de siglos – o tal vez jamás – podrá ser eliminado del organismo nacional. Millares de nuestros conciudadanos pasan como ciegos ante el hecho del emponzoñamiento de nuestra raza, sistemáticamente practicado por el judío

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.

I'm at that place I grew up to leave.

I'm in the reservation of my mind.

And realize that maybe they came into your life, not to be there forever, but to teach you something that will make you ready when forever finds you.

The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of agelessw beauty and grace.

It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of ageless beauty and grace.