Quotes About Contemplation

La mayoría de nosotros aceptamos involuntariamente una vida superficial, pero rodeándola de gran misterio.

Hay que reflexionar y deliberar antes de tomar cualquier decisión.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I've never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I'm fond of flowers

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.

I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be repeated again and again.

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech

To be sure, nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.

25/12/48 É muito provável que ao lembrar-me disso, um dia, eu ache muita graça. Assim como houve um tempo em que eu era religiosa de um modo neurótico e aterrorizado e achava que um dia seria católica, agora acho que tenho tendências lésbicas (com que relutância escrevo isto) –

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one.

Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Look and look and don't ever forget. Now, close your eyes. Here, give me your hand. And just feel. Can you feel the Earth move?