Quotes About Reflection

My trade and art is to live.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

My trade and my art is living.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

To philosophize is to doubt.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.