Quotes About Reflection

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.

Daß du mein Grab besuchst, ist nicht wichtig. Ich weiß, daß du an mich denkst – das ist wichtiger.

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

He wondered why nothing was ever like you thought it would be and then he realized it was because you never thought this would be you. She

Do you know why I have so patiently translated Poe? Because he resembled me. The first time I opened one of his books, I saw with terror and rapture subjects dreamed by me and described by him, twenty years earlier. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

his fate stirs us only because it might have been our own fate ; because the oracle has cursed us prior to our birth, as it did him, [...] our dreams convince us of this truth. (Dream Interpretation: Edipus, by. Freud)

I don't have the total recall that makes the ideal autobiographer, nor have I kept diaries. I have always lived very much in the present, remembering only what seemed to be worth retelling. Even that ability is now partly gone; when I try to recall more recent memories they are fewer and less clear than those of my early days.

Es posible que nos separemos dentro de poco, que no volvamos a vernos en mucho tiempo. Pero si un día volvemos a reunimos, y recordamos esta noche y las horas que hemos pasado juntos, no habremos perdido "aquello" que nos ha unido. Estaremos más maduros frente a la vida, y podremos volver a unir los hilos que se han roto.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity would have to become its own object.

The artist has breathed in the world to breathe it out again; the philosopher has the world outside him and he has to absorb it.

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

So we, in thoughtless play, twist the first gleaming and silky threads of the fatal cord which will cling about our necks, fastened beyond hope of release, as long as our lives shall last!

Whatever good I have kept in me—and in the world it is very hard to keep any—I owe it to Ben on those still Sunday mornings in those deep, old, quiet, green woods.

The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like.

For the most part people are cruel, cruel if only from lack of thought.