Philosophical Reflection Quotes

#1. I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

#2. Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities - we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.

Richard Feldman

#3. Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

#4. Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. Only now could lay any claim to forever ...

Tim Willocks

#5. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

#6. I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die.

Surendra Nath

#7. Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#8. Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#9. Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs.

Taranum

#10. Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season.

Valentina Zelyaeva

#11. Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

R.D. Ronald

#12. Man is made by his beliefs.
As he believes, so he is.

Anonymous

#13. Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

Ida Rolf

#15. The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.

R.D. Ronald

#16. There is an example that inspires a matter for debate. Was the pattern always there for us to find or do we create it entirely by ourselves from nothing?

Philip Dodd

#17. Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.

Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#18. It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#19. Don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Jack Kerouac

#20. The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

John Scalzi

#21. It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

George W. Bush

#22. Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.

Hakan Nesser

#23. The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Bella James

#25. Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.

G. Willow Wilson

#26. There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Sophocles

#27. Mental reflection os so much more interesting than tv [that]it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant, but it never is.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#29. To know oneself is a journey that requires a beginning

Jack Sanger

#30. No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa

Tilopa

#31. Respect All! Worship Own!

Unknown

#32. The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

Stephen Colbert

#33. Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.

Munia Khan

#34. Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#35. She gave me a philosophical lecture ala "Course in Miracles", where reality is a reflection of one's attitude and expectations.

Mark Heying

#36. My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#37. Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#38. Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between.

Jack Sanger

#39. It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

A.G. Phillips

#40. I'm not a little sheep who's wandered from her ewe. I am a grown woman!

Mary Ellis

#41. But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Chaka Fattah

#42. The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

George William Curtis