Quotes About Contemplation

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.