Quotes About Contemplation

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. By witnessing physical grace, the soul comes to understand and love beauty. Seeing people compete courageously and fairly helps emancipate the individual by educating his passions.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Thoughts crawled around my head in all directions like big lazy caterpillars. I gave up, closed my eyes, and let myself drift.

It taught me that for every period of stress there must be a time of rest and contemplation.

Two things fill the mind with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence

Thinking is conversation with oneself.

Nu se poate înv??a filozofia; se poate înv??a doar filozofarea.

My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all that has been done, to propose first the preliminary question, "Whether such a thing as metaphysics be at all possible?

Come sempre, quando si attende la morte di qualcuno che non è necessario alla propria esistenza, al proprio respiro, si pensa più a se stessi che alla persona in fin di vita.

Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...

An experience is richest not talked of.

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.