In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reflection makes men cowards.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.