Quotes about Reflection

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

A woman is the image of God.

it remains for us to treat of His image,

Every agent makes its like

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.