Quotes About Contemplation

Rimase seduta al tavolo di cucina, con la schiena curva e la mano posata sul grosso stomaco. Il pensiero che in qualunque momento ne avesse sentito il bisogno avrebbe potuto uccidersi le attraversò la mente. Non era la prima volta in vita sua che ci pensava, ma in precedenza rifletteva sempre sul biglietto da lasciare.

He had felt the presence of God since, at times, as though a golden color was very near to him, but he never again felt visited by God as he had felt that night, and he knew too well what people would make of it, and this is why he would keep it to himself until his dying day—the sign from God.

Come se l'anima potesse far silenzio in quei momenti.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Being human means understanding the reality around us not because God commands us to, but because that is what our mind does as part of its nature. The Augustinian and the Neoplatonist mind passively contemplates the world and waits for a connection to a higher truth to be revealed. Aquinas saw the mind as Aristotle did, as actively analyzing that world in order to forge those connections for itself.

Aristotle's philosopher is always an observer of reality, not the creator of it. Instead of laying out the perfect blueprint, then turning reluctantly to the real world, Aristotle starts with the real world itself.

Everyone and everything were becoming bricks in the comprehensive and complex edifice Aristotle was determined to build in order to reach the most profound truths. Those truths, as he made clear,† come not in a sudden moment of intuitive insight or from some inner contemplative process. They are the result of hard work and thought.

Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.

The arts, then, are man's difference, that which makes him to be what he is; and when he speaks through them he is using the utterance which is proper to him, as man. For, if we once set aside the "does it pay" nonsense, which is evidently nonsense and pestilent nonsense at that, we come clearly and freely to the truth that man is concerned with beauty, and with the ecstasy or rapture that proceeds from the creation of beauty and from the contemplation of it.

Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

At last, I began to consider my mind's disorder a sacred thing.

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

Poetry has a crucial role to play in our lives, society, and the world. It helps us slow down, hear clearly, see deeply, and envision what matters most in our lives."—Arthur Sze

Les deux camarades constatèrent en philosophes que chaque jour était sans exception le premier du temps qui restait à vivre à chacun même si l'on était en général trop occupé pour y penser

Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.

Por eso estaba callado y quieto, que era una forma tan buena como otra cualquiera de estar desesperado.