Quotes About Reflection

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

deeds," Stanley remembered later.

Getting closer to home, is it a fully satisfying repentance if we only deal with the past, which cannot be changed? "Alas, what did I do?" I don't think so. Believers get closer to repentance instead by asking, "Alas, what kind of person was I that I could do that?

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Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .

Use this advice to prod your thinking, but don't use it as a replacement for your thinking. In the end you have to make, and live with, the decisions yourself.

Life being what it is, you won't get your names right the first time. In this situation you may well be tempted to leave it—after all it's only a name. That is the work of the evil demon Obfuscatis; don't listen to him. If you see a badly named method, it is imperative that you change it. Remember your code is for a human first and a computer second. Humans need good names.

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

the picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own, precisely in order to reflect life'.

Nada es tan melancólico como la muerte de la belleza.

We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.