Quotes About Contemplation

If you have the energy, take a walk today through a quiet area of town. Or better yet, get out of town and find a "safe place" in nature. Rest when you're tired and contemplate the ways in which you might take better care of yourself in the coming weeks and months.

You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

It's what you're reading that matters, and how you're reading it, not the speed with which you're getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar

Watkins, S.B.,

I owe my solitude to other people.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

But I was too hungry to think very deeply. I looked around the plaza, weighing up my chances, and rubbed the bow with rosin to give it grip. You need friction to play beautiful notes.

The time to think about personal achievement is at the end of your career.

Just like any other human being is concerned about his or her personal life, I also need to think about my personal life.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.

Philosophy is for the few.