Contemplation Quotes

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

— Richard Wagner

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

— Euripides

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

— Carl Sandburg

“the night of thought is the light of perception.”

— Evelyn Underhill

There is no art without contemplation.

— Robert Henri

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

— John Milton

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

— Thomas Merton

“Too often contemplation is the excuse for inaction.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

— Steven Rinella

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

— Gabriel Marcel

“Contemplation over action teaches that it is better to behold God than to try and imitate his power.”

— Daniel Schwindt

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

— Irenaeus of Lyons

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

— Isaac Newton

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

— Pythagoras

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…

— Baron d'Holbach

Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in…

— Zoe Leonard

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet…

— Charles Gounod

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro…

— Ovid

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the…

— Alister E. McGrath

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.…

— Douglas Preston

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good…

— Robert Farrar Capon

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing…

— Jim Wallis

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…

— Aristotle

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring…

— Marcus Aurelius

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of…

— George Bernard Shaw

“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after,…

— Bhagat Singh

We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long…

— John Cassian

“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other…

— Carmen Acevedo Butcher

“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation…

— Gustav Landauer

When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of…

— Michael Faraday

“I lead a life much below my level. Beyond the books, which trickle in slowly (I have to read what I can…

— Bruno Schulz

“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from…

— Paul Bowles