Quotes About Reflection

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

All Philosophy is Biography

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.