Reflection Quotes - Page 20

• As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

  William Cronon

  Mirrors, Desire, Facts

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• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Years, Ideas, Study

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.17

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• We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.

  Naum Gabo

  Plato, Reality, Creative

  Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.

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• Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dream, Stars, Cutting

  Federico García Lorca, “The Song Of The Barren Orange Tree”

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• The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Simple, Glasses, Psychology

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Circles, Self

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Looks, World

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• Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

  Christopher West

  Love Is, Catholic, Faithful

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• Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Life, Teaching, Serenity

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• Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

  Ernest Renan

  Men, Atheism, Heroism

  "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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• What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Powerful, Heart, Hands

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

  Andrew Horning

  Government, Liberty

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• Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

  Christina Aguilera

  Life, Girl, Who I Am

  Song: Reflection, Album: Christina Aguilera

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• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Alfred Loisy

  Personality, Kind, Obvious

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• A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Negative, Moments, Force

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.275, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Country, Two, Patriotism

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Character, Blow, Reactions

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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• I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Thinking

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Glasses, Mirrors, Years

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• Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

  Roger Caillois

  Dream, Assuming, Turns

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• I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

  Edward Rutledge

  Real, Evil, Moments

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 233, 1997.

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• Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

  Sonya Hartnett

  Brother, Revenge, Blood

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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