Contemplation Quotes

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking" "I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me." "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." "Think and wonder, wonder and think." "A voice is calling me endlessly, as it does for all trees, roads, and mirrors" "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" "Certain thoughts are prayers There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees" "In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion" "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?" "Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?" "There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." "The more he saw the less he spoke" "I tried to pay attention but attention paid me" "In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves." "If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe." "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." "The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied." "It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth."