Quotes About Contemplation

To philosophise is to learn how to die.

Ä°nsan caddenin tamam?na bak?p hemen bir karar varmamal?. Her zaman ad?m ad?m ilerlemeli. Sürekli olarak bir ad?m sonras?n? düÅŸünmeli, bir ad?m, sonra derin bir nefes, sonra bir süpürge. Ä°ÅŸte o zaman hayat zevkli olur. Önemli olan iÅŸini iyi yapmakt?r.

Günlük yaÅŸam içinde çok büyük bir s?r vard?r. Herkesin bunda bir pay? bulunur ve herkes onu bilir, ama pek az kimse bu konuya kafa yorar. ÇoÄŸu kimse onu olduÄŸu gibi benimser ve ona asla ÅŸa??rmaz. Bu büyük s?r zamand?r.

Algunos opinaban que a Beppo Barrendero le faltaba algún tornillo. Lo decían porque ante las preguntas se limitaba a sonreír amablemente y no contestaba. Pensaba. Y cuando creía que una respuesta era innecesaria, se callaba. Pero cuando la creía necesaria, pensaba sobre ella.

Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?

Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.

Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.

Spivey was a worrier. He thought that when a person took risks, the thing that went wrong was usually a thing the person hadn't thought about, and so he tried to think about the things he wouldn't naturally think about.

And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most.

Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

He combed his milk-white hair and crooned a tune to himself, clipped on his yellow chamois shoulder holster and stepped out into the soft night and his smooth car. As he drove, he considered the stars. It would all be over in a flash.

Once, a moonbeam glanced off silver, illuminating the dark silhouette of Elric, but, as if repelled by the sight of a living creature on that bleak hill, the moon once again slunk behind its cloud-shield, leaving Elric thinking deeply. Leaving Elric in the darkness he desired. Thunder rumbled over distant mountains, sounding like the laughter of far-off gods. Elric shivered, pulled his blue cloak more tightly about him, and continued to stare over the misted lowlands.

She was looking out of the window

He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.

He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

Now where does he sit as he thinks of her? These years later. A stone of history skipping over the water, bouncing up so she and he have aged before it touches the surface again and sinks.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife.

Ä°ngiliz Hasta'n?n Ä°lk Cümlesi Genç kad?n bahçede çal???rken birden doÄŸrulup uzaklara bak?yor.

She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.