Quotes About Contemplation

He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.

Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.

DüÅŸünürün görevi düÅŸünceler ileri sürmektir, oysa azizin iÅŸi susmak, bulduÄŸu ÅŸeyi söylememektir.

God's real and subtle nature must be clear of distinctions: a glass of spring-water, tasteless, odourless, merely refreshing: and surely its appeal would be to the few, the very few, real contemplatives?

I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.