The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings… — Maximus the Confessor 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
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim 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
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror… — Elizabeth Prettejohn Copy Share Image
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer 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
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
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