Essentials Quote by Edmund Husserl

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and…

— Vladimir Lenin

That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances…

— Walter Pater

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace…

— Yves Klein

“Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many…

— John O'Donohue

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

— Voltaire

I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition…

— Hilary Kornblith

All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With…

— Samael Aun Weor

“The nature of the mind is like a mirror which has the natural and inherent capacity to reflect whatever is set before it, whether…

— John Myrdhin Reynolds

“Reflection is time sensitive; and with the realization that the 'present' and 'future' can be altered, it is also purposeful, for we can set…

— Patricia H. Graham

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“We must always reflect only what we wish to see reflected within us.”

— Robin Sacredfire

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

— Jean Piaget