Quotes About Contemplation

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Let him alone, he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear; do not therefore disturb him.

If you want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my dear comrade.

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? To

What else can one do in the time before sunset?

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

quiénes son entonces -preguntó- los que llamas filósofos verdaderos? -Los que gustan de contemplar la verdad -respondí.

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

He is divine -- but then I call all philosophers that.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

SOCRATES: But I think that finally he would be in the condition to look at the sun itself, not just at its reflection whether in water or wherever else it might appear, but at the sun itself, as it is in and of itself and in the place proper to it and to contemplate of what sort it is.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Philosophy begins in wonder. -Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Así, pues, lo lleno de cosas más reales y que es más real en sí mismo, ¿está más realmente lleno que lo lleno de cosas menos reales y que es además menos real en sí mismo?

So in the first place, such things show clearly that the philosopher more than other men frees the soul from association with the body as much as possible?

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro

why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?

He aquí por qué no tenemos tiempo para pensar en la filosofía; y el mayor de nuestros males consiste en que en el acto de tener tiempo y ponernos a meditar, de repente interviene el cuerpo en nuestras indagaciones, nos embaraza, nos turba y no nos deja discernir la verdad.