Quotes About Contemplation

Otkako su ljudska bi?a zaposjela Zemlju, no?no je nebo bilo sudrug i nadahnu?e. Zvijezde su smirivale ?ovjeka. Nekima je nebo otvaralo put prema vjeri. Drugima je svemir pružao poticaj za najneobi?nija maštanja.

If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

If you don't smoke cannabis, you may spend your evening balancing your checking account. If you do smoke cannabis you may spend your evening contemplating the causes of the Greek Renaissance.

Assassin, you are a mystery / To me, I say to my reflection sometimes

It didn't hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be.

His thoughts drifted randomly, as thoughts will do.

It is odd how we lead such separate lives so much of the time, keeping our thoughts to ourselves. We

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, the great and honorable wizard, stood alone on the wizard's rock his father had given him, and stared out into the night, thinking wizard's thoughts. "Nothing is ever easy," he whispered.

The room, rather than breaking into whispering, as Dalton expected, fell into a stunned, dead silence. Dalton then realized, for the first time, really, that he had been born and lived his entire life under the reign of the old Sovereign. An era had ended. Many in the room had to be thinking the same thing.

Sometimes you have to step outside of yourself in order to see inside.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They're rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

The thing is, I mean, there's times when you look at the universe and you think, "What about me?" and you can just hear the universe replying, "Well, what about you?"

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.