Quotes About Contemplation

A few terminally ill persons I have known have quietly ascended their favorite mountain late in the day and made sure that they were above the freezing line for that particular time of the year. They used public transport to get there so that a parked car would not be spotted. Then, wearing light clothing, they sat down in a secluded spot to await the end.

If you can't stand to be alone with your thoughts, maybe there's something wrong with your thoughts.

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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?