Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington Copy Share Image
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make up my mind, other times my mind wanders, and every so often I lose track of it entirely. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“This objective is to silence the busy mind, free it from stress, and prepare it for reflection and contemplation.” — Anong Sasithorn Copy Share Image
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read 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… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
