And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato 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
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
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
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
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
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
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill 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
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision… — Kimbra 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
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
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
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
