Quotes About Reflection

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.