Quotes About Reflection

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

The first day of the rest of my life.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

This Life is More than Just a read through.