Reflection Quotes

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "All great and precious things are lonely." "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details" "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame" "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "Sometimes it is worth the journey just to feel you exist" "Pain + Reflection = Progress" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man" "Much learning does not teach understanding" "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards" "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" "Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues" "You're on earth. There's no cure for that."