Quotes About Reflection

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.

Where silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence. Man does not put silence to the test; silence puts man to the test.

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

It is entirely correct and completely in order to say, "You can't do anything with philosophy." The only mistake is to believe that with this, the judgment concerning philosophy is at an end. For a little epilogue arises in the form of a counter-question: even if we can't do anything with it, may not philosophy in the end do something with us, provided that we engage ourselves with it?

Because death is meaningless, civilised life as such is meaningless.

Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.

After twenty successful years in journalism, I left it, vividly remembering that You can achieve a lot with journalism, but you should know exactly when to quit.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.

We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken. There is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

from impulsive and ill-considered actions; the other is

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.