Quotes About Reflection

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly. We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound, and who say the thing without effort which we want and have long been hunting in vain.

Reality is a sliding door.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss.

The years teach much which the days never know.

the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The

If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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