Quotes About Contemplation

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.

It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.

What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking, but only at what he himself is doing, in order that he does what is just and respectful of the gods. As Agathon4 said, do not peer into the darkness of another's character, but run straight toward the finish line without straying from your path.

Jacqueline Davies

Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".

Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: "Lord, if you're up there somewhere, and you aren't too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I'm very lonely and it would make me so happy." Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.

Is there a satisfaction in the effort of remembering that provides its own nourishment, and is what one recollects less important than the act of remembering? That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else.

I wondered what would make me stop, whether it would be hunger, sleep or boredom – in other words, what prompts decisions when you are utterly alone.

Here the work had a beginning and an end, like house painting or carpentry, and if she didn't want to talk to anyone, she didn't have to.

She wanted her 4:00 A.M. brain to experience the house, the time when thinking goes spiral and catastrophic before morning light restores reason.

when you're young you think you'll always be young. Then one day you suddenly wake up and you're over fifty. And the names in the obituary columns are no longer anonymous old people. They're your contemporaries and friends.

And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate shell found at the beach, that she had never truly known the value of simply accepting things as they were.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.

Write down what I think I know. The knowing will come. Just keep listening...

Sans fin regarder poindre une seconde nuit

I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Quand on le laisse seul Le monde mental Ment Monumentalement

Solo me siento vivo a partir del instante en que contemplo mi existencia.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Time works for those who place themselves beyond time.