Quotes About Contemplation

Ask yourself if you're taking the time to see beyond the surface.

Lonely sunlight

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as ??????? ??????. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Contrarily, if they are active within, they do not care to be dragged out of themselves; it disturbs and impedes their thoughts in a way that is often most ruinous to them.

A constant flow of thoughts expressed by other people can stop and deaden your own thought and your own initiative…. That is why constant learning softens your brain…. Stopping the creation of your own thoughts to give room for the thoughts from other books reminds me of Shakespeare's remark about his contemporaries who sold their land in order to see other countries.

You can know only what you have thought about.

If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems!

La solitude offre à l'homme intellectuellement haut placé un double avantage : le premier, d'être avec soi-même, et le second de n'être pas avec les autres.

Ein geistreicher Mensch hat, in gänzlicher Einsamkeit, an seinen eigenen Gedanken und Phantasien vortreffliche Unterhaltung, während von einem Stumpfen die fortwährende Abwechslung von Gesellschaften, Schauspielen, Ausfahrten und Lustbarkeiten, die marternde Langeweile nicht abzuwenden vermag.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend mine reflecting on it.

We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls

Life is only the mirror into which a man gazes not in order that he may get a reflection of himself, but that he may come to understand himself by that reflection; that he may see what it is that the mirror shows.

A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered.

Un hombre puede ser él mismo mientras esté solo; si no ama la soledad, no amará la libertad; porque sólo cuando se está solo se es realmente libre.

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

La soledad es la suerte de todos los espíritus excelentes

Only through the pure contemplation . . . which becomes absorbed entirely in the object, are the Ideas comprehended; and the nature of genius consists precisely in the pre-eminent ability for such contemplation. . . . (T)his demands a complete forgetting of our own person.

do nauki tej nale?? ogólne prawa myÅ›lenia, którym rozum podlega w chwili, gdy jest pozostawiony samemu sobie, gdy nic mu nie przeszkadza, a wiÄ™c podczas samotnego myÅ›lenia rozumnej istoty, której nic w bÅ'Ä…d nie wprowadza

Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1) sort by ? top up up position down down ? bottom Remove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer "We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!