Quotes About Contemplation

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

We become what we think about most.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

but philosophy at half-past ten at night is somewhat late;

There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.

Dantès descended, murmuring the supreme word of human philosophy: 'Perhaps.

Crois-moi, on cherche mal quand on ne réfléchit pas.

he sat down in the chair and went over in his mind everything that in the past week or so had filled his cup of bitter sorrows and dark memories to overflowing.

that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

since like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, he was occupied with seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

God alone knows what is going on within the hearts of men.

Y entonces la soledad se poblaba con sus pensamientos, las tinieblas se desvanecían ante sus ilusiones, y el silencio se turbaba con sus votos y sus proyectos.

Immobilisé, je me mis à vivre avec moi, ce qui n'était pas dans mes habitudes ; et cette intimité nouvelle me fit découvrir le miracle de se côtoyer réellement, préambule à tout amour réel.

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Among all beings, man alone shows a natural distaste for existence and an immense desire to exist: he scorns life and fears nothingness. These different instincts constantly push his soul toward the contemplation of another world, and it is religion that leads him there. So religion is only a particular form of hope, and it is as natural to the human heart as hope itself.u

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

To read is to ……….indulge yourself in mental masturbation.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.