Quotes About Contemplation

Alternar el amor con el odio distingue por largo tiempo el estado interior de un hombre que quiera ser libre en su juicio sobre la vida. Por fin, cuando toda la mesa de su alma está cubierta con notas de la experiencia, no tendrá para la existencia desprecio, ni odio ni tampoco amor; morará muy por encima de ella, dirigiéndole semejante a la Naturaleza, tendrá en el pensamiento, bien el verano, bien el otoño.

This book is intended for calm readers.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

Kada dugo gledaš u bezdan tada bezdan krene gledati u tebe

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Of two quite lofty things, measure and moderation, it is best never to speak. A few know their force and significance, from the mysterious paths of inner experiences and conversions: they honor in them something quite godlike, and are afraid to speak aloud. All the rest hardly listen when they are spoken about, and think the subjects under discussion are tedium and mediocrity.

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The quick, daily glance into the half darkness became an integral part of his life.

The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labor. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do — that is perhaps why so few indulge in it.

discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God

another pull on the Bushmills. Shrugged. "I guess they figured

I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I'd learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it was like reading late at night, where three minutes in you realize you've read the same paragraph six times and still don't have any idea what it's about.

In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.

Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

Let me stay here, he said. There was soap.

Aureliano Secondo tornò nella casa coi suoi bauli, convinto che non soltanto Ursula, ma anche tutti gli abitanti di Macondo stavano aspettando che spiovesse per morire. Li aveva visti, passando, seduti nei salotti con lo sguardo assorto e le braccia incrociate, intenti a sentir trascorrere un tempo intero, un tempo non domato, perchè era inutile dividerlo in mesi e in anni, e i giorni in ore, se non si poteva far altro che contemplare la pioggia

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.

el ruido no necesita la lectura.

Tant de choses qu'on imagine quand on est tout seul, et de la tempête dehors!

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