Mirror Image Quotes

• Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Mirrors, Age

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2011

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• The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Looks, World

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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• Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

  Terence McKenna

  Mirrors, Ability

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Hurt, Mirrors, Joy

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• My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

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• ... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Mirrors, Expectations

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

  Bob Stoops

  Team, Mirrors, Balls

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• The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the earth; He is the grain. She is the all encompassing sky; He is the sun, her fireball. She is the Wheel; He is the traveler. He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the Mother and Destroyer; He is all that is born and is destroyed.

  Starhawk

  Mother, Sacrifice, Sky

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• It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Art, Jobs, Responsibility

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mirrors, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

  Christopher Lasch

  Art, Mirrors, Messages

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• Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

  Gail Buckley

  Mirrors, White

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• And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.

  Alexander Masters

  Determination, Mistake, Fall

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Science, Mirrors

  "Works". "Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences", Vol. 1, June 1, 1874.

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mirrors, Doubt, Tourists

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• Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

  David L. Katz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Passion, Technology

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• Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirrors, Personality, Adults

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside. Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons. Our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family - if all the people in our inner circle resemble us, it means we are surrounded with our mirror image.

  Elif Safak

  Running, Mean, Heart

  "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Real, Bad Ass

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If you have a universe that was just the mirror image of the one we know about, then in fact, presumably it would have right-handed amino acids. That's why I'm only half kidding when I say there is a guy on the other side of the universe with his heart on the right hand side.

  Ronald Breslow

  Heart, Mirrors, Hands

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• We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

  Richard Rohr

  Fighting, Mirrors, Self

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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