Quotes About Contemplation

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.