Quotes About Reflection

Voor de democraat staat vrijheid niet gelijk aan alles kunnen zeggen wat je denkt, maar aan niet over alles hoeven nadenken wat je zegt.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of the industrial society.

Zichzelf veroordelen is niet minder pretentieus dan zichzelf vergeven.

To refute the new morality, all one needs to do is examine the faces of its aged devotees.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Only those who never moved a finger to acquire them should talk about money and power.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it. Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

In order to avoid a manly confrontation with nothingness, man erects altars to progress.

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.