Quotes About Contemplation

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

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

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.

Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.