Quotes About Reflection

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

The past is no Roman road, but more often a maze...

Alle, die professionell schreiben, wissen, dass sich ein Gedanke oft erst in der Arbeit an der genauen Formulierung klärt. Sie wissen, dass wir vieles nur schreibend wirklich zu Ende denken können. So wie auch unsere besten Gedanken nicht selten aus dem konzentrierten Prozess des Schreibens heraus entstehen und plötzlich da sind, zu unserer eigenen Überraschung.

You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.

Look around your house and find an item you've tried to discard before but just couldn't. Examine it and think about letting it go. What other thoughts arise? Does your mind struggle to stop you from getting rid of this item? Remember: You really don't have to obey your mind's command to hang on to it.

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

Los seres humanos no podrían soportar una vida carente de sentido.»

Es posible que la existencia carezca de sentido. Y sin embargo, la pasión de vivir es más fuerte que la explicación de la vida.»

You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.

They know God exists already that's old. I think now they're trying to figure what to do with It." "What to do with God." "Maybe worship. Maybe disinfect.

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.

You said it was colorful. What changed?" "I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just— I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more." "So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked. Fuck it I thought, and tipped back the last of my pint in a single gulp. "I know." "How?" I frowned, taken aback. I had to think for a few moments before I remembered. "I wake up smiling," I said.

You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births.

NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau

It was a clear, impenetrable hole in the ship: a circular viewport into an alien terrarium where, out past the ghostly reflection of his own face, strange hyperbaric creatures built monstrous artifacts out of sand and coral. Their eyes twinkled like green stars in the gloom.

it's not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion. Though

Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don't want to admit we were left behind.

Do you want to know what consciousness is for? Do you want to know the only real purpose it serves? Training wheels. You can't see both aspects of the Necker cube at once, so it lets you focus on one and dismiss the other. That's a pretty half asses way to parse reality. You're always better off looking at more than one side of anything. Go on try. We focus. It's the next logical step. Oh, but you can't. There's something in the way. And it's fighting back

So much more aware, so much less perceptive. An automaton could do better.