Quotes About Contemplation

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

?esto sam razmišljao o smrti i zaklju?io da je ponajmanje od svih zala.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

For that school is so busied with the particles that it hardly attends to the structure, while the others are so lost in admiration of the structure that they do not penetrate to the simplicity of nature. These kinds of contemplation should therefore be alternated and taken by turns, so that the understanding may be rendered at once penetrating and comprehensive, and the inconveniences above mentioned, with the idols which proceed from them, may be avoided.

Read Not to Contradict Or Confute Nor To Believe Or Take For Granted But To Weigh And Consider Oh the side of my high school building

There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...

HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS.

Paralysis is the first stage of wisdom.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.

Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

What takes place in me stays there.