reflection Quotes

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.