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Reflection (thought) is, in critical hermeneutics, seen as a method to neutralize the biases of tradition, and therefore interpretation can be freed from distortion.

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Reflection (thought) is an action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relationship to yesterday, and are able to avoid perils that we shall not again encounter.

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Reflection (thought) is an action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

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Reflection (thought) is an operation on what is given in unreflective thought by engaging in abstraction and distinguishing the subject from its object.

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Reflection (thought) is not the evil... but transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

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Reflection (thought) is not advisable. Rather than to stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, we should instead flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

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Reflection (thought) is like knowledge in that it increases sorrow and no task is more difficult than to extricate oneself from the temptations of reflection.

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