“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.” MeanEndsActionEvilConditionsDangerousMovementReflectionCapacityTransformingLead InRetrograde Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.” HumansLightTruthValuesAbilityClearQuietReflectionCapacityAffectionClarityPermanentCantQuiet Reflection Book:Readings from Huxley Source: Readings from Huxley
“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.” ThinkingWayGivingBookRealSelfBrainProductsCivilizationReflectionCapacityAgencyCivilizedSelf ReflectionCivilized Society Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.” MeanPoliticalProcessResponsibilityPrinciplesExerciseReflectionCapacityRationalAutonomyPolitical Responsibility Author:Alison Assiter
“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet” MindChildrenBookFeelingsDreamAwarenessReflectionCapacityProfoundHorribleSensationsUnusualCradleBook Of Disquiet Author:Fernando Pessoa
“To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman” WayMeanPlayUsePastSocialProcessOne ThingShapesIntellectualReflectionCapacityTestsScientistGuidesCaptureOur PastYour PastCraftsman Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
“The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.” WayShouldHumansFoundEventsTerribleLimitsApproachReflectionCapacityDestructionUltimateDedicatedQuestsHiroshimaSomberTerrible Events Book:Because We Say So Source: Because We Say So