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“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Should Reading Interest Moral Particular Bears Morality Reflection Murder Agree Convinced Stealing Observation Witness Dogma Plunder False Witness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.”

Philosophy Bears Reflection Absolutes Delight Witness Deepest Love

Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.”

Long Light Results Meditation Style Bears Reflection Wings Graves Lively Montesquieu

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.”

Light Results Objects Type Bears Reflection Photograph Surface Sensitive Visuals Icons

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

“The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.”

May Feelings Form Fall Attitude Bears Judgment Reflection Complexes Tendencies Psychological Former Falling Apart Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

Helping Serious Bears Reflection Ill Evening Preacher Examination Eloquent Amused Moralist Anne Elliot

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd

“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”

“You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.”

Humans Body Faces Nature Written Youth Bears Equal Reflection Surface Your Body Landscape Lifts Noses Owners Your Face Attractiveness Human Faces Engraved

Author:Francoise Giroud

“Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection.”

Mean Art Ideas Form Used Certain Courses Individual Information Painting Bears Reflection Function Visuals Collectives Interpretation Translations Illustration Resemblance Pictorial

Author:Gerhard Richter