Quotes with reflections

  • Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
  • It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

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  • Mangnu Hirschfield Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
    Mangnu Hirschfield
    German physician and sexologist
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  • Carl von Clausewitz An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • John Updike Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Peace Pilgrim For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • John Ruskin Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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