Quotes About Contemplation

Thinking: The world is. It just is.

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

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself.

It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know anybody later on who was the way we were now.

Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you want to do—if you can.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

apropos of nothing.

Reflection opens up hope.

Estás intentando emborracharte? - Por supuesto que sí. Si tengo que hablar conmigo mismo, no veo qué necesidad hay de hacerlo sobrio.

The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

Se medita para descubrir la propia identidad, el verdadero lugar que ocupamos en el universo

perch on the wall

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet.

Constantly he went back over the evidence of his memories.

The sadness of life. That was another conundrum he would occasionally ponder.

Adrian, however, pushed us to believe in the application of thought to life, in the notion

Gustave's last years are arid and solitary. He

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

he thought he probably wouldn't have sex again before he died. Probably. Possibly. Unless. But on balance, he thought not. Sex involved two people. Two persons, first person and second person: you and I, you and me. But nowadays, the raucousness of the first person within him was stilled. It was as if he viewed, and lived, his life in the third person. Which allowed him to assess it more accurately, he believed.