Quotes About Reflection

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

En los subterráneos del alma, como en los desvanes de las casas viejas, no se encuentran sino ratones muertos entre muebles rotos.

Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire. We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

Al despojarse de la túnica cristiana y de la toga clásica, no queda del europeo sino un bárbaro pálido

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

Negarse a admirar es la marca de la bestia.

Appartengono alla letteratura tutti i libri che si possono leggere due volte.

The genius who bemoans and laments himself forgets that he has spared himself the misfortune of mediocrity.

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.

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

We doubt the importance of many virtues as long as we do not come across the contrary vice.

Serenity is the fruit of uncertainty freely accepted.

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches "intellectual isolation".

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

Humanizing humanity again will not be an easy task after this long orgy of divinity.

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.

El hombre no se comunica con otro hombre sino cuando el uno escribe en su soledad y el otro lo lee en la suya. Las conversaciones son o diversión, o estafa, o esgrima.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.