“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.” ThinkingRealWholeDreamSpiritualCultureSpeakLanguageMankindDevelopmentCivilizationRootsMirrorsSpiritual DevelopmentTracing Author:Ernest Klein
“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.” WellsEndsFeelingsAbleAcceptingRolesTeachSeeingMankindPositionDutyMirrorsIncludingBelieverProphetSocialistContradictoryBrowsHereticFrivolousOratorsDodgeScepticGadflies Author:Jacques Barzun
“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.” IfsWorldWritingMayArtStillsUseShowsEyeCareTurnsPassionGreaterMankindSafeAccountsMirrorsDiscriminationImitationWickednessRepresenting Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’” MenWorldUniverseMemoriesMankindMirrorsSubstanceGenesPerpetual Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.” MenWorldHappinessJoyMankindTearsDramaLaughterMirrorsSensitive Author:George P. Baker
“[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.” WantKindProblemBlackMankindConsequenceMachinesMirrorsUnforeseen Author:Charlie Brooker