Quotes About Contemplation

I was for the first time in my life living within the limits of my attention's resources. I was observing as much information as I could actually process, think about and contemplate. The fire hose of information was turned off. Instead, I was sipping water at the pace I chose.

the medium of the book tells us several things. Firstly, life is complex, and if you want to understand it, you have to set aside a fair bit of time to think deeply about it. You need to slow down. Secondly, there is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. Thirdly, it is worth thinking deeply about how other people live and how their minds work. They have complex inner lives just like you.

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

three crucial things that are happening during mind-wandering. First, you are slowly making sense of the world.

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

He has found that the more you let your mind wander, the better you are at having organized personal goals, being creative, and making patient, long-term decisions. You will be able to do these things better if you let your mind drift, and slowly, unconsciously, make sense of your life.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Aš apie j?s? tikr? vert? Nor??iau spr?sti iš darb?.

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Laisse le grand monde aller son train sonore, nous autres nicherons ici en silence.

O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.