Quotes About Contemplation

His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade of a wild cherry, infested with tent caterpillars, he began to make notes for a poem.

To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

There've been times when just because I kept my mouth shut and didn't say what I thought, I felt my strength increasing. Still, I don't seem to know what i think till I see what i say.

Ne biti budala možda nije vrijedno teških alternativa.

Razmatraju?i sav svoj život, uvidio je da je pogrešno postupio u svemu - u svemu. Život mu je bio, štono kažu, upropašten. Ali pošto on, kao prvo, nije mnogo ni vrijedio, nije bilo ni naro?itog razloga žaljenja. Razmišljaju?i na smrdljivoj sofi o stolje?ima, devetnaestom, šestnaestom, osamnaestom, pronašao je u posljednjem izreku koja mu se svidjela: Žalost je, gospodine, vrsta dokonosti.

He meditated on his weakness.

At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn't be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone

It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.

Une vie de sagesse est une vie de contemplation et d'actions entremêlées.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

I took a rant-sized breath.

Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.

Ben ayr?m?nda de?ilim: Ne zaman gündüz oluyor, ne zaman gece. Evren etraf?mdan silindi ve sadece o kald?.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.

Bakat dikembangkan dalam ketenangan, Watak dibentuk dalam kegalauan dunia.

DICHTER: O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge, Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht. Verhülle mir das wogende Gedränge, Das wider Willen uns zum Strudel zieht.

ak?am, gün do?u?unu izlemeyi tasarl?yorum ve sabah yataktan kalkam?yorum; gün boyunca ay ?????n? bekliyorum, sonra da ak?am, odamdan ç?kam?yorum. ne u?runa uyand???m?, ne u?runa uykuya yatt???m? bilmiyorum.

Tanr? biliyor ya! Ço?u zaman, bir daha uyanmama iste?iyle, hatta bazen bir daha uyanmama umuduyla yat?yorum yata??ma; sabah gözlerimi aç?p da güne?i gördü?ümde içerliyorum.

In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either in life or in knowledge.

?i dac? totu?i, pân' la urm?, natura pe ea îns??i se scruteaz??

Seit der Zeit bin ich oft draußen.