Quotes about Reflection

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self satisfied.

Guilt and blame grew defuse when memory covered a millennia.

Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

And then he remembered Hawat's words: Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.

Languages build up to reflect specializations in a way of life. Each specialization may be recognized by its words, by its assumptions and sentence structures. Look for stoppages. Specializations represent places where life is being stopped, where the movement is dammed up and frozen.

And what have they created?" Taraza asked. "Only the image of evil stupidity?" "Act stupid long enough and you become stupid