Quotes About Reflection

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?