Quotes About Reflection

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

Philosophy is an act of living.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Philosophy is doubt.

Make thought a whirlwind.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.