Quotes About Contemplation

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done.

I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

That's how we're going to face the end of the world? Reading a book?

Lared sat before the fire, watching the flames trying to escape up the chimney, always dying before they quite made it out. *

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

There are moments we return to. We are in theme. We rest there and there is nothing else.

The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before.

Perhaps she could use the sounds, punctuate them with some of the other birdsong she had taped, but the more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that sound was something to leave alone, that it was not the bulldozers nor the olive trees nor the buzzing strobe lights that needed attention, but the quietness itself.

In his book Pensées, a collection of fragments of theology and philosophy, the seventeenth-century French philosopher Pascal suggested that all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit, alone, in one room.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

Avant d'ouvrir la bouche, assure-toi que ce que tu vas dire est plus beau que le silence.