Quotes About Contemplation

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

I'm really just a dude that cooks, plays with his son and thinks about stuff in his spare time outside of dedicating about six hours or so to basketball stuff.

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I'm not much into speculation.

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

Silence is safer than speech.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.