Quotes About Contemplation

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

Este problema, hora es ya de revelarlo, no era otro que el origen del pensamiento.

Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City...

To be here or somewhere else, to live or not to live, to look out through a broken window or not to look.

Everybody is guilty of mistakes and of serious mistakes, and the contemplation of these mistakes must darken, be it ever so little, the last years of existence.

Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

When you spend serious time and effort focused on transcendental things, it puts your little world into proper context and takes the focus off yourself. Most of our days, I am thinking me, me, me. It's like watching the same dreary television show, over and over, all day long. It's so boring. Faith forces me into the cosmos, to consider the source of truth, the origin of life, and the good of others. This focus brings refreshment and relief. A

To contemplate your eulogy, however, is the easy part. Now the harder part: staring right at your death and decline itself. This is what will truly eradicate the fear.

Many mornings upon waking, my first thoughts are about my old work and friendships in Washington. I rub the sleep from my eyes, get up, and cast my line into the falling tide of the new day.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to.

The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself, Why am I about to rule the way I am about to rule? You must always ask yourself that question.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

Black Sabbath questioned a lot of things.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.