It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. — Victor de Laprade Copy Share Image
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Like all religious evangelists, she realizes that there is little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of… — Ruben Aguilar Copy Share Image
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“Contemplation is precisely the awareness that this “I” is really “not I” and the awakening of the unknown “I” that is beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky 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
“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 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
“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
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Any act which is done for others is considered as dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
