Quotes About Contemplation

The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.

I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.

'Once More' is a comedy for sure, but it also makes us introspect.

I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

I keep an open mind.

I'm better not operating at center stage.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

Ah! I have talked quite enough for today, said Lord Henry, smiling. All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.

passion makes one think in a circle

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I

I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer.