Quotes About Contemplation

Winter is a time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

And I'm listening and thinking of the distances imagination travels sitting still, wandering without direction.

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Wyje?d?am, skr?cam na Orlen, ?eby wzi?? podwójne espresso w kartonowym kubku. Pij? ?apczywie i prawie si? parz?, bo chc? w tym najciemniejszym dniu ?wiata mie? jasny umys?. ?eby to wszystko, co widz? i s?ysz?, wchodzi?o g??biej. ?eby przeszywa?o na wylot. Poniewa? nic innego nie mo?emy zrobi?.

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.

Der Mensch denkt nicht vergeblich. Kein Gedanke, auch nicht der wunderlichste, vergeht fruchtlos.

He had no taste for his own company and avoided such an encounter as much as possible, for the last thing he wanted was to make close acquaintance with himself.

He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

Solitario como un astrónomo que en su observatorio contempla cada noche, por la diminuta abertura de su telescopio, las miríadas de estrellas, sus misteriosas evoluciones, su cambiante confusión, cómo desaparecen yvuelven a encenderse, Jakob Mendel miraba a través de sus gafas y desde aquella mesa cuadrada ese otro universo de los libros, que asimismo gira eternamente y renace transformado,aquel mundo sobre nuestro mundo.

Leía como otros rezan... Leía con un ensimismamiento tan impresionante que desde entonces cualquier otra persona a la que yo haya visto leyendo me ha parecido un ser profano.

des âmes totalement consacrées à l'art lyrique seront-elles encore possibles à notre époque, dans nos nouvelles conditions d'existence qui arrachent les hommes à tout recueillement et les jettent hors d'eux-mêmes dans une fureur meurtrière, comme un incendie de forêt chasse les animaux de leurs plus profondes retraites ?

There was nothing here to distract me from my thoughts, my delusions, my morbid recapitulations.And that was exactly what they intended – I was to retch and retch on my own thoughts until they choked me.

Mi sorpresa al darme cuenta de que aquellos empujoncitos a unas figuras de un tablero eran lo mismo que mis devaneos por los espacios del pensamiento podría compararse a la de un astrónomo que a fuerza de cálculos complicados sobre un papel deduce la existencia de un nuevo planeta, y después lo ve realmente en el cielo, un astro blanco, claro, sustancial.

Geburtstag ist ja Tag, wo man an sich denkt. (... Çünkü doÄŸum günü, insan?n kendi üzerinde düÅŸündüÄŸü bir gündür.)

Ne çok zaman geçmiÅŸ ne çok zaman yitirilmiÅŸti, ama tek bir düÅŸünceyle ve tek bir saniyede en baÅŸa dönülebiliyordu...

frase de Escipión, que de sí mismo dijo que nunca estuvo más activo que cuando no tuvo nada que hacer y nunca menos solo que cuando estaba solo consigo mismo.

Whether we do it or not, we'll have to see—but still, just to have an idea, to think it through, work it out, and calculate the alternatives down to the ultimate consequences, that'll be a pleasure I'd never expected to have.

La mia solitudine è dignitosa, la affronto a testa alta, ma se la guardo in faccia mi deride, mi ferisce fa ritornare tutte le solitudini del passato. E' così: ogni solitudine contiene tutte le solitudini vissute.

Non si dovrebbe parlare di Dio. Non conosciamo la sua lingua. Possiamo soltanto ascoltare. Come l'incanto di una musica lontana, nel cuore della notte

La storia ci guarda e non vorrei che vomitasse.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.