Quotes About Reflection

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Philosophy is the highest music.

History should be written as philosophy.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

A man is a god in ruins.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.