Reflecting

Famous quotes containing the word reflecting:

“Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)