Quotes About Reflection

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."