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
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
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
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James 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
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“In contemplation lies the seed of peace – in peace lies the seed of morality - in morality lies the seed of… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It is not our contemplation of life. Rather, it is the living out of our lives so that we have something to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“No reprimand in the mirror Slow walk to Liberia Slow dance across the Sahara Slow unraveling of gray matter” — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
