Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must… — Clarence Darrow 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
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures. — Martin Luther 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
