Quotes by Reflection We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational. Terry Eagleton reflectionselfmean It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection. Terence McKenna reflectionselfhands What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance. Terryl L. Givens choicesreflectionbelieve What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. Terryl L. Givens embracewho-we-arereflection If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing. Taylor Swift mirrorsreflectionthinking We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope. Terry Tempest Williams reflectionwritingnight And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self. Terence McKenna reflectionbelievemoving Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold. The Miz wwereflectionhurt The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit. Terence McKenna trackreflectionself Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. Theodor Adorno reflectionselfmean Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary. Terence McKenna reflectionselfmean They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see. Theodore Sturgeon mirrorsreflectiondog History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition. Terence McKenna recognitionreflectionself A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is. Thierry Mugler photographimaginationreflection The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. Thomas a Kempis reflectiontimehappiness The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience. Thomas Berry reflectiondreammean This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity. Thomas Hirschhorn goalreflectionart So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name. Thomas Hobbes reflectionmenchildren I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers. Thomas J. Paprocki speaks-outreflectionprayer The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period Thomas L. Thompson biblicalreflectionreality«6869707172737475767778»
