Quotes About Reflection

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Philosophy can make people sick.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.