Reflecting Upon Quotes

• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

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  Michelangelo

  Art   Kings   Spring  

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• I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.

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  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science   Reflecting Upon   Lasts  

  "Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840:From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Vol.1: The Setting". Book by Grattan-Guinness, p. 139, July 1, 1990.

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• in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

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  Christina Baldwin

  Live Life   Writing   Reflecting Upon  

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.43, New World Library

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

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  John Thorn

  Baseball   Player   Games  

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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  Charles Dickens

  Cities   Reflecting Upon   Profound  

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

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  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness   Reflecting Upon   Ruins  

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• When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

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  Hideki Tojo

  Blessing   Should Have   Reflecting Upon  

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

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  Herodotus

  Thinking   Reflecting Upon   Inspire  

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• Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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  John Locke

  Reflecting Upon   Ideas   Delight  

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.146

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• Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.

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  Neel Burton

  Thinking   Self   Reflecting Upon  

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

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• Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

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  Michael Leunig

  Jesus   Easter   Reflecting Upon  

  "Michael Leunig Finds Modern Meaning in the Easter Story". Interview with Annette Marner, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2013.

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• The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

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  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Lying   Heart   Humble  

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• Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living.

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  H. E Davey

  Art   Writing   Reflecting Upon  

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