Quotes About Contemplation

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life."

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Gutes tun will überlegt und gelernt sein.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

I'd like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.

the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it and be in agreement.

The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything. When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

O mundo não se fez para pensarnos nele (pensar é estar doente dos olhos) mas para olharmos para ele e estarmos de acordo...

Há metafísica bastante em não pensar em nada.

He's taught me everything. He taught me how to look at things. He shows me everything there is in flowers. He shows me how stones are pleasing When you hold them in your hand And look at them for a while.

Ser poeta no es una ambición mía. Es mi manera de estar solo