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Quotes About Reflection

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
~ Van Morrison
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
~ Bertrand Russell
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.
~ Kedar Joshi
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
~ Bertrand Russell
I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.
~ Kid Rock
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The best of humanity is philosophy.
~ Kedar Joshi
Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
~ Compay Segundo
Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.
~ Ivan Tverdovsky
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.
~ Mason Cooley
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
~ Garth Brooks
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
~ Alfred North Whitehead
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
~ Frederick Lenz
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
~ Seneca the Younger
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
~ Voltaire
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
~ Victor Hugo
I took all the philosophy courses I could.
~ Judd Nelson
I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.
~ Bruce Springsteen
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.
~ Frances Wright
Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.
~ Rodney Crowell
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
~ Walter Kaufmann