Individual Reflection Quotes

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.