Quotes About Reflection

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.