Quotes About Contemplation

some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and

Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva.

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

I'm not really into religion.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

I'm not religious, but I feel like there has to be a higher power up there.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.

I'm not a religious person.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

I'm not a religious person at all.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.