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“These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.”

Want Feels Age Water Succeed Reflection Obsession Landscape

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.”

Knows Art Age School Girl Boys Ought Reflection Printing School Girl

Author:Horace Mann

“The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time. The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.”

Has Beens Seems Age Found Attitude Illusion Reflection Theatre Absurd Former Assumption Representatives Tested Hallmark Swept Away Unshakable Certitude

Author:Martin Esslin

“A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.”

Men Age Action Records Middle Youth Reflection Old Age Sentiments Diaries Middle Ages

Author:John Quincy Adams

“I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Matter Age Fronts Reflection No Matter What Milestone

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”

Men World Mind Philosophy Age Action Youth Shapes Reflection Aspect Affair Determine Practicals Impression Resolution

Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Littles Made Care Age Young Sides Too Much Air Fine Fit Clothes Reflection Twenties Dresses Fellows Take Care Fifty Forty Excess Awkward Stink Fifty Year Olds

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.”

Ifs Thinking Life Feels Should Mind Looks Age Pain Moving Young Joy Worry Seeing Reflection Young Age

Author:Swami Nithyananda

“The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection had I imbibed any general Prejudice against Kings, or in favour of them. It appeared to me then as it has done ever since, that there is a State of Society in which a Republican Government is the best, and in America the only one.”

States Done Government Age America Reading Kings Republican Truth Is Reflection Prejudice Former Maturity Favour Republican Government

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”

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Author:Raoul Peck

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.”

Doe Age Middle Reflection University Philosopher Tendencies Germany Humane Middle Ages Scholastics

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.”

Age Passion Understanding Reflection Enthusiasm Repose Bursting

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.”

People Thinking World Inspirational Stories Age Seeing Reflection Who You Are Storyteller Deep Thought Projection Projectors

Book:Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

“What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.”

Age Passion Reflection

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.”

Humans Enough Age Joy Century Reflection Heartache Eighteen

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.”

Age Spirit Found Felt Born Church Results Reflection Catholic Feds Catholicism Evangelical Born Again

Author:Bill McCartney

“Life can only be understood backwards.”

“As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Way Should Years Enough Age Found Chance Opinion Gone Wind Essentials Reflection Crowds Nine Ties Eleven Nurturing Reservoirs

Author:Walter Murch

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears - Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem