Quotes About Reflection

Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

What a fool I used to be (The truest words I ever wrote, and they get truer every day. )

setting off," when the world both contracts and expands at the same time.

Few people associate words like serenity and tranquility with motorcycling, but some of us discover those mind-states by motoring along on our own two wheels, out in the weather and part of the scenery, on quiet roads of our choosing.

Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.

That is why a good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph. Analytic thought is too busy for that, and too detached.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

We look at the television screen and ask, in the same voracious way as the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" We are inclined to vote for those whose personality, family life, and style, as imaged on the screen, give back a better answer than the Queen received.

Tr? em ??n tr??ng vá»›i nh?ng d?u ch?m h?i và ra tr??ng vá»›i nh?ng d?u ch?m h?t.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author

Every philosophy is the philosophy of a stage of life, Nietzsche remarked.

For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

Without defenses, people have no way of finding meaning in their experiences, lose their capacity to remember, and have difficulty imagining reasonable futures. One

Finalmente, Huxley intentaba decirnos que lo que afligía a la gente en "Un mundo feliz" no era que estaban riendo en lugar de pensar, sino que no sabían de qué se reían y por qué habían dejado de pensar.

Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.

You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to that to which is being judged.

People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think

Since a year encompasses a great deal of events, so do our services in the month of Elul. As we prepare for the redemption offered us by Yom Kippur, we focus on what I like to call the three T's: Torah, tefilah, and tzedakah.