Quotes About Reflection

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed!

Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?

The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.

We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Come, speak low. The dark is not so dark.

There are pigeonholes in the brain with labels on them such as: To be looked into when I feel like it; Never to be thought of; Useless to follow up; Contents as yet unexamined; A blind alley; A rich vein, but exploitable only in another existence; Urgent; Dangerous; A hard nut to crack; Impossible; Discarded; Put in storage; None of my business; In my line; A teaser…and so forth.

La jeunesse est un temps pendant lequel les conventions sont et doivent être mal comprises : ou aveuglément combattues, ou aveuglément obéies. On ne peut pas concevoir, dans les commencements de la vie réfléchie, que seules les décisions arbitraires permettent à l'homme de fonder quoi que ce soit : langage, sociétés, connaissances, œuvres d'art.

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

La définition du Beau: il est ce qui désespère.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

Il faut donc que notre esprit s'excite soi-même à se défaire de sa stupeur et à se reprendre de cette solennelle et immobile surprise qui lui causent le sentiment d'être tout, et l'évidence de n'être rien.

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.

Filosofische posities krijgen hun ware objectiviteit alleen wanneer de lezer ze zich zelf toeëigent, wanneer hij ze voor eigen rekening zelf na-denkt, en zo de gedachten van anderen tot zijn eigen, opnieuw persoonlijke gedachten maakt.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Functioneringsgesprekken zijn de nieuwste versie van de biecht, zij het zonder kans op absolutie.

What have you done, you thereWeeping without cease,Tell me, yes you, what have you doneWith all your youth?