Quotes About Reflection

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.