Quotes About Contemplation

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.