Quotes About Contemplation

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.

.if you're looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

Who do you love more, your thoughts or God?

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Religion of Blue CircleTo bring and give a lesson, is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 29, 2016AmenGod

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.