Reflection Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image ““[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.”” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reflection
“He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is…it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human.” — Steven Lang Copy Share Image
“God’s Word is His will. Reading and meditating upon it is rewarding.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.” — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“He spent long hours meditating on the wisdom of loving living things which invariably ended up dead.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
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 thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
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 the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated,… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present… — 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 who have… — 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 how well… — 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 abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a… — Paul Valery Copy Share
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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