Quotes About Reflection

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

The silent man is the best to listen to.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

Ihmiset eivät opi paremmiksi, varovaisemmiksi vain.

Juovuksissa taas, ja onko olemassa muuta kuin ikävä tyhjyydestä pois.

Joskus katselen rystysteni arpia, muistelen lapsuuden opetuksia. 'Jos ovi ei aukene, se aukaistaan.

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?" And that answer, I'm afraid, is silence.

Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world's most perfect haiku.

I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one.

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone.

When I saw you, I saw love. When I saw you naked, I saw lust. When I saw you with my clone in a dream, I saw the future.

Not only am I thinking about getting a nose job, but I'm also trying to get employment for the rest of my face.

If I told you I've worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I'm too tired to be me.

I haven't been feeling like myself lately. No, I've been feeling like my clone.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, "Self Storage," and I thought, "I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.