Quotes About Contemplation

Se acuerda de que alguien dejó dicho que el camino verdaderamente misterioso siempre va hacia el interior.

Y, sobre todo, lo que aún es más difícil: saber quién realmente pudo ser.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

It's a great thing learning how to die.

Practice these and the related percepts day and night and you will live as a god among men.

It is not simply in wonder but in love that philosophy begins.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Men stayed in bed for hours on end, or hung around in stairwells and courtyards. "Nothing is urgent anymore; they have forgotten how to hurry.

He listened to everyone but his heart kept asking why.

A man by himself is in bad company.

not all thoughts have to become words!

Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Tomorrow is Sunday. I wonder if I shall hear a sermon?

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.

Wilberforce is having thoughts now that seem utterly strange and foreign.

Heard the Bible read two hours—Pascal one hour and a quarter—meditation one hour and a quarter…. Pitt called and commended Butler's Analogy—resolved to write to him, and discover to him what I am occupied about: this will save me much embarrassment, and I hope give me more command both of my time and conduct.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

As Whitehead has observed, "No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.