Quotes About Contemplation

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

Voor de democraat staat vrijheid niet gelijk aan alles kunnen zeggen wat je denkt, maar aan niet over alles hoeven nadenken wat je zegt.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium. Only the contemplation of the immediate saves us from tedium in this incomprehensible universe.

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.

Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprecedented business; but the clay pipe only wheezed and said nothing.