Quotes About Contemplation

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Philosophy can make people sick.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Philosophy is the highest music.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.