Quotes About Reflection

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Life is only therapy.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.