reflection Quotes

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.