Quotes About Reflection

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

Up to now our thinking was either purely mechanical - discursive - atomistic - or purely intuitive - dynamic. Perhaps now the time for union has come?

he who has tasted it, who has stood at the watershed of this world and looked across into the new land, into the dwelling of the night ? truly, he will never return to the labours of the world, to the land where the light is housed in ceaseless unrest.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

The true philosophical act is the slaying of the self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy, therein lies the requirement for all philosophic youths, and only this act answers all criteria and conditions for the transcendental deed.

Orice om care gânde?te va g?si întotdeauna adev?rul - indiferent unde va voi s? se duc? ?i cum va voi s? mearg?.

i loved you on purpose i was open on purpose i still crave vulnerability & close talk & i'm not even sorry bout you bein sorry you can carry all the guilt & grime ya wanna just dont give it to me i cant use another sorry next time you should admit you're mean/ low-down/ triflin/ & no count straight out steada bein sorry alla the time enjoy bein yrself

Tá tóithín ag macnas i ndoimheas mo mhachnaimh.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.

There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

Pobre y desnuda vas, filosofía, dice la turba atenta al vil negocio.

Si el biofísico y filósofo Pierre Lecomte du Noüy nos ha invitado a reflexionar sobre el hecho de que «en la escala de los seres, sólo el hombre realiza actos inútiles»,

es una ciencia <>, porque <>. Y <>.

È nelle pieghe di quelle attività considerate superflue, infatti, che possiamo percepire lo stimolo a pensare un mondo migliore, a coltivare l'utopia di poter attenuare, se non cancellare, le diffuse ingiustizie e le penose disuguaglianze che pesano (o dovrebbero pesare) come un macigno sulle nostre coscienze.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.