Contemplation Quotes

"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." "The more a man knows, the less he talks." "I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." "Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth." "To contemplate is to look at shadows" "Listen deep enough, you always hear something" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them" "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details"