Quotes About Contemplation

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.

My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes; better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.

The sage as astronomer.—As long as you still feel the stars as something 'above you', you have not yet acquired the gaze of a man of deep understanding.

God has given us music so that firstly we are lead towards higher things. Music combines all characteristics in it. It can elevate, it can tease, it can cheer us up, yes, it can even break the most brazen temperament with its tender and yearning sounds. However, its main aim is to direct our thinking towards higher things, to elevate and even deeply disturb us…

Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.

If you still experience the stars as something over you, you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.

We are always only in our own company.

We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

Like a deep well is the solitary. Easy it is to throw a stone in; but if it sink to the bottom, tell me, who will want to fetch it out again?

That need to talk, talk, talk; I mistrust it, it repulses me. Most people are equivalent to noise for me. Outer noise. Contaminating noise. See, they feel like noise which is perfectly unrelated with intensity. My inner system can accept noise associated only with powerful living, not weak and stupidly persistent surviving.

The higher philosophical man has solitude not because he wishes to be alone, but because he is something that finds no equals.

I love to lose myself for a while.

Oh, como somos felizes, nós que procuramos o conhecimento, se não quebrarmos o silêncio prematuramente!...

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Everything that is of my kind, in nature and history, speaks to me, praises me, spurs me on, comforts me - everything else I don't hear or forget right away. We are always only in our own company.