Quotes About Contemplation

One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Even thinking was hard.

I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly— mostly, mostly— I do.

We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.

All great and precious things are lonely.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

Az igazság többet nyer azoknak a tévedéseivel, akik kellÅ' felkészülés után a maguk fejével gondolkodnak, mint azoknak az igaz vélekedéseivel, akik csupán azért vélekednek így, mert nem hajlandók magukat gondolkodással gyötörni.

Evidently, Michelangelo was intrigued to contemplate the aftermath of his own experience of eliciting beauty from abstract rock.

good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.

I remained silent and continued designing my Pyramid of Life. Dogs were at the top and I was at the base, but I hadn't figured out where to put cats.

?Chris can sometimes rush into action when it might be smarter to sit back and bark at it for a while.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

Conciencia implica adquirir un conocimiento de algo a través de la reflexión, de la observación o de la interpretación de lo que uno ve, oye, siente, etcétera».

Stoner saw them through a haze, as if he were an audience.

it led his eyes outward and upward into the sky, where he looked as if toward a possibility for which he had no name.

Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».

and as he walked slowly through the evening, breathing the fragrance and tasting upon his tongue the sharp night-time air, it seemed to him that the moment he walked in was enough and that he might not need a great deal more.

The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The