Quotes About Contemplation

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

The days are long and quiet. They accumulate. There is no end to them. Picard walks the lanes around his fields. He broods. He writes—long, long books about great men and great deeds. Wine is made, and drunk. Winter comes, then spring, then harvest, then another deep cold winter. The cycle is endless. The huge clock ticks in the hall, eating time. His mind goes around in circles. What shall I do, now? Where do I go? Who am I?

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned

In prayer you communicate with God, in meditation God communicates with you.

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.