Quotes About Contemplation

The heart of a man is like deep water

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!