Quotes About Reflection

The hero is the owner of the deep reflections that generate those ideas.

The metaphysical imagination will challenge the dilemma.

The reason of life is to live a life of reason.

The woebegone aspect of life right now is that gathers what's what faster than society gathers cognizance.

There is alienation that must happen in the mind for serenity to thrive and flourish.

You will be in the greatest losses when the great truth passes before you and you deny it.

Loving yourself means falling in love with your flaws, not with your mistakes!

Verrete perché io vi sto aspettando»; "Vi potrò vedere o no? That is the question: per conto mio, so bene come risolverla; ma siete voi a non volervi decidere. Ondeggiate, come ondeggerete tutta la vita, fra il vostro carattere di civetta e le abitudini di convento; tutto il male viene da lì".

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.

This being had only come to me, only manifested itself outside of activity and immediate enjoyment, on those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape the present. And only this being had the power to perform that task which had always defeated the efforts of my memory and my intellect, the power to make me rediscover days that were long past, the Time that was Lost.

There is hardly a single action that we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer posses the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

Ma consolation, c'est de penser aux femmes que j'ai connues, aujourd'hui qu'il n'y a plus d'élegance

Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains even in the proximity of their tombs nothing but the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself

Solitude is often the best society

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

They who increase knowledge, increase sorrow