Quotes About Contemplation

Contemplating the stars he has become accustomed to considering himself an anonymous and incorporeal dot, almost forgetting that he exists; to deal now with human beings, he cannot help involving himself, and he no longer knows where his self is to be found.

Long-time inhabitant of steeples, accustomed to contemplating, from his perch on a rainspout, the expanse of roofs, he knew that the souls of cities are more substantial and more lasting than those of all their inhabitants put together.

??c là ni?m cô ??n.

In seguito a una serie di disavventure intellettuali che non meritano d'essere ricordate, il signor Palomar ha deciso che la sua principale attività sarà guardare le cose dal di fuori.

Escape, is one of those words I cannot hear without abandoning myself to endless ruminations

We can know nothing about what is outside us if we overlook ourselves, he thinks now. The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.

There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence.

Cosimo sat in the ash tree every day, gazing at the meadow as if he could read in it something that had long been consuming him inside: the very idea of distance, of the gap that can't be bridged, of the wait that can last longer than life.

Nella forma che il caso e il vento dànno alle nuvole l'uomo è già intento a riconoscere figure.

Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria.

On sober reflection, you prefer it this way, confronting something and not quite knowing yet what it is.

E poi non sapevo più cosa guardare e guardai il cielo.

Ba?ka yer, negatif bir aynad?r. Yolcu sahip oldu?u tenhay? tan?r, sahip olmad??? ve olmayaca?? kalabal??? ke?federek.

anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it

Há três hipóteses a respeito dos habitantes de Bauci: que odeiam a terra; que a respeitam a ponto de evitar qualquer contato; que a amam da forma que era antes de existirem e com binóculos e telescópios apontados para baixo não se cansam de examiná-la, folha por folha, pedra por pedra, formiga por formiga, contemplando fascinados a própria ausência.

My empire has grown too far toward the outside. It is time,' the Khan thought, 'for it to grow within itself.

Forse questo giardino esiste solo all'ombra delle nostre palpebre abbassate, e mai abbiamo interrotto, tu di sollevare polvere sui campi di battaglia, io di contrattare sacchi di pepe in lontani mercati, ma ogni volta che socchiudiamo gli occhi in mezzo al frastuono e alla calca ci è concesso di ritirarci qui vestiti di chimoni di seta, a considerare quello che stiamo vedendo e vivendo, a tirare le somme, a contemplare di lontano.

I don't know if you believe in the Spirit, sir. I believe in it. I believe in the dialogue that the Spirit conducts uninterruptedly with itself.

Are you reading or daydreaming?

Al ver a veces a mi hermano perderse en un viejo nogal inmenso, como en un palacio de muchos pisos e innumerables estancias, me entraban ganas de imitarlo, de ir a vivir allá arriba; tal es la fuerza y la seguridad que ese árbol pone en ser árbol, su obstinación en ser pesado y duro, que se le nota incluso en sus hojas.

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

La forza dell'eremita si misura non tanto da quanto lontano è andato a stare, ma dalla poca distanza che gli basta per staccarsi dalla città, senza mai perderla di vista

my eye lest I be invaded by

Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. … I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek