Quotes About Contemplation

From a distance, people observed. Such a thing was easier from far away.

breathing then, for

Are you looking at a dead man now?

The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally

In the morning's early hours, quiet voices were loud.

People who work alone know the beauty of solitude. The perhaps greater beauty of loneliness

The stars are so big, The Earth is so small, Stay as you are.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

He wondered if silence gathered in some places: a wood in deep winter; a dock where a boat moored in still water; an abandoned farmhouse. The world at large was against silence, which made it all the more restful and the more necessary when one came upon it.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought about it and it's just not on, is it? It's nearly on, but not quite. No? Anyway, all the best, C.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Das Fragen baut an einem Weg.

Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy is not a mere joke but is something to think over. We shall fo well to remember occasionally that by our strolling we can fall into a well whereby we may not reach ground for quite some time.

August este singur pe vîrful unui munte; sînt ultimele sale zile. Poetul spune: "El sta aici si asculta vidul pur. Totul e ciudat, o nalucire. Pe mare (cîndva, August calatorise adesea pe mare) se misca totusi ceva; acolo exista sunet, ceva ce se putea auzi, un cor al apelor. Aici — nimicul se întîlneste cu nimicul într-o absenta fara hotare. Nu-ti ramîne decît sa dai din cap, plin de resemnare.

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it

The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.

Echte Erinnerung ist Zuwendung zum unerschlossenen Inwendigen des Gewesenen. Echtes Erinnern ist ein Ahnen.

To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.

Questioning is the piety of thought

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Nearly two thousand years ago a sage named Ben Bag-Bag insisted that students must go deeper, turning the biblical text over and over again: "Turn it over and over because everything is in it and reflect upon it and wax grey and old over it and do not leave it, for you have no better lot than that" (Abot 5:22).