Quotes About Reflection

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.