Quotes About Contemplation

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

I was wondering when I was going to end up like this.

What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus?" Fraa Jad asked. "He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge," I said. "You think he saw beauty? That is a safe answer, since it is beautiful. But what was he thinking about? What connections did the beauty enable him to perceive?" "I couldn't possibly answer that." "Don't answer it. Ask it.

The question is, how long does Mr. Spinny have to live? And what does that tell us?

What are you doing?" Dengo would ask him. "Observing," father would say. "But how long can you observe the same thing?" "Forever.

That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would bring senility; now, he was certain it would slowly paralyze him by encumbering each tiny thing with all sorts of significations.

But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.