Quotes About Contemplation

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.