Quotes About Reflection

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

You have to choose your future regrets.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!