Contemplation Quotes

"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time" "It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself" "And in the end we are all just dreamers in an endless universe" "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past" "The life we have is the only life there is, and if we survive another five hundred years it will still be the only life there is" "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing, that is enough for one man's life" "The beautiful uncut hair of graves." "Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits" "What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?" "I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and look at the stars." "Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing which I call thinking is my supreme Happiness" "A philosopher is someone who won't take your watch away to tell you what time it is" "I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it" "I see things from a distance, never the meaning. " "The present state of the world and all of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence." "Mirror on the wall, here we are again" "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth" "The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside." "The more you know, the sadder you get."