Reflection Quotes

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We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and… — Terry Eagleton
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. — Loren Eiseley
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. — Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. — Albert Einstein
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. — Jacques Ellul
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. — Desiderius Erasmus
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. — Bryan Ferry
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an… — Michael Haneke
Reflection makes men cowards. — William Hazlitt
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's… — Jimi Hendrix
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of… — Eric Hoffer
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in… — Eric Hoffer
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers,… — David Hume
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. — William Ralph Inge
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. — Jesse Jackson
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. — William James
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. — Samuel Johnson

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