Quotes About Contemplation

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds...

Perchance, like myself, you may cloud-gazing be; Perchance, my sweet friend, you are thinking of me...

And you know very well that coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause & reflect).

Must read, or sit in reverie and watch The changing color of the waves that break Upon the idle seashore of the mind!

When Ideas float in our Mind, without any Reflection or Regard of the Understanding, it is that, which the French call Reverie; our Language has scarce a Name for it...

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Have cognition before ignition.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturbed...

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

Golf is long, and life is fleeting...

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

never thought about it so abstractly," he confessed.  "I've been too busy puzzling over why I came here.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

Schwatzendale pulled at his chin. He mused. "There is stuff here which requires sober over-thinking." Moncrief waved away the idea. "No need! I have done all necessary thinking. The scheme is excellent!

Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions.

By taking this stand, Burckhardt emerged in most refreshing contrast with his contemporaries and many of his successors. For what he developed was nothing short of a psychology of historiography. The historian is to observe, contemplate, and enjoy the incredibly glorious richness of the human experience. He is to look for human greatness and creativity everywhere, even in periods that might seem alien and distant from him.

Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.

Let the dreamers and the seers keep watch. It is what we do.