Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to… — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in. — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must look within yourself to save yourself from other self. Only then will your true self reveal itself — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it,… — John Green Copy Share Image