Quotes About Contemplation

Bazen bildikleriniz hakk?nda sessiz kalmak yap?labilecek en iyi ÅŸeydir. Ä°çinizde ???k kadar h?zl? olun, ama d??ar?da ad?m ad?m ilerleyin.

Kiekviename ši? knyg? puslapyje rašytojas ?spaud? save, ir mes, s?d?dami bibliotek? tyloje, panor?j? galime ?skaityti j? ? savo gyvenim?.

Felsefeniz, evrene bakman?n bir yoludur; günlük hayat?n?zda size rehberlik eder. Onu ders kitaplar?nda bulman?z pek olas? deÄŸildir.

KulaÄŸa ç?lg?nca gelse bile yan?tlar?n?z dinleyin, yeter ki içinizdeki yüce gerçeÄŸi yans?ts?nlar.

Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be there after him. That was sort of awful and sort of wonderful.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

Je reste des heures entières debout au même endroit, presque sans bouger (j'ai même vu le vent s'arrêter dans ma main)

We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then…

He was so fascinated by the long single strand of black hair that he did not overflow his mind with fantasies about it, turning it into a hundred varieties of his imagination.    He just sat there staring at it.    Japanese hair.

Invece di avere soltanto qualche chilometro e talvolta soltanto pochi centimetri tra un problema e l'altro, perché non incrementare la distanza? Sarebbe bello una volta tanto avere 47 chilometri tra un problema e l'altro e magari in 47 chilometri un po' di pace potrebbe spuntare come una giunchiglia in mezzo ai miei problemi.

its helpful to step back and see the bigger picture

Pascal said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.

consciousness-raising.

So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

How dare they invite us—in our sitting rooms, watching television—to feel uplifted by contemplating an act of ritual murder: the murder of a dependent child by a group of stupid, puffed up, superstitious, ignorant old men? How dare they invite us to find good for ourselves in contemplating an immoral action against someone else?

Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation....In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.