Quotes About Contemplation

Outside the bedroom Jane fumbled around and in her purse and produced a pack of cigarettes, but couldn't figure out whether to smoke one or not. "Holy Motown Jesus with Pips, what the fuck is going on in there?

Sometimes there are no answers.

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

It also troubled him when he contemplated how such a partnership must, by its very nature, reduce the individuality of those involved.

Now, can we please abandon such weighty conversation? I have become thoroughly exhausted with thoughts of fate, destiny, justice, and other, equally gloomy topics over the past few days. As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Master." For several minutes, no one spoke. Eragon tried to guess what the elf was thinking, but could glean no information from his masklike visage. Finally, Oromis stirred. "Were you, perchance, given a trinket of some kind in Tarnag, Eragon?

philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. …

En una ocasión me preguntaste qué veía yo entre las estrellas. Te respondí que veía preguntas. Pero ahora te veo a ti. Nos veo a nosotros.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

Any spot where the earth kisses the clouds is a special place, a place where primal truths reveal themselves to those who've acquired the wisdom of solitude.

Before long, you'll find yourself thinking of the list before you act, which will set the stage for making choices you can live with.

Being a thinker was a various thing. Sometimes you felt like a turtle, with a nice, private built-in place to shelter. Other times it was like having a bucket stuck on your head, making the world clang and echo and never stop.

Look up and we're all looking at the same sky.

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys...

Nebulat ergo cogito.

I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.