Quotes About Contemplation

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

The key to every man is his thought.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.