“Others are mirrors of one's soul.”
Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher
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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
— Virginia Woolf, book Between the Acts
Source: Between the Acts
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“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”
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Source: I Know This Much Is True
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 49
Variant translations of first portion: A book is a mirror: If an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. — this has actually been the most commonly cited form, but it is based on either a loose non-literal translation or a mistranslation of the German original: Ein Buch ist Spiegel, aus dem kein Apostel herausgucken kann, wenn ein Affe hineinguckt.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
Context: A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
“These words are not enough to save my soul,
they just mock me from the mirror.”
Peter Hammill (1948) British musician
"This side of the Looking-Glass" on Over (1977)
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
James Francis Stephens (1792–1852) British ornithologist and entomologist
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 115.