Quotes About Reflection

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Books are humanity in print.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Literature is the memory of humanity.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.