Reflection Quotes - Page 29

• It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spiritual, Wrath, Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 11, 1799.

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• Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  People, Interesting, Tvs

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• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dream, Religious, Soul

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• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Quality, Television, Taste

  Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Rip, Passion

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• The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Simple, Style

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

  Richard Leakey

  Communication, Language, Produce

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Sky, Water

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• Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Illustration

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• I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Believe, Illumination, Ideas

  Rudolfo Anaya (2015). “The Essays”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Jobs, Husband

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• You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

  Joseph Frank Bianco

  Inward, Looks, Look At Yourself

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• We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

  William McNamara

  Surveys, Painter, Take Time

  William McNamara (1962). “The art of being human”

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• Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Prayer

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• My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'

  Thomas Huxley

  Stupid, Science, Ideas

  "On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species' " (1888)

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• I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.

  DMX

  Friendship, Weekend, Soul

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• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  Pat Metheny

  Music Love, Output

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• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

  Socrates

  Farewell, Passion, Ignorance

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• I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Thinking, United States

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• Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Faith, Men, Errors

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• When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doubt, Preparation, Levels

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• I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

  Bill Budge

  Interesting, Personality, Robots

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• My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

  Mario Balotelli

  Who I Am, Public Image, Fairs

  "Mario Balotelli: 'I'm not a bad guy but I'm shy. Interviews are hard'" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Personality, Meeting Someone, Ethics

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