Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Worldly life increases with artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others), and worldly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still… — evelyn underhill Copy Share Image
“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“Silence is not always complacency. It is contemplation and forethought taking place in the minds of those who would be careful with… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reflection is the process of stepping back from an experience to ponder, carefully and persistently, it's meaning to the self through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.” — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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