Quotes About Reflection

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Things always become obvious after the fact

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.