A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall 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
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. — Ali ibn Abi Talib 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
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
“There was a lot of joy to be had in the contemplation of a pint glass; in terms of plain reality of… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire… — John of the Cross 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
Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Look at these cliffs! Some are abrupt and unpredictable. Some other are soft and with smooth slopes. Yet, they all have the… — Irina Serban Copy Share Image
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic… — Carl von Essen Copy Share Image
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded… — Allen Ginsberg 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
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 elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“I finished my cigarette, but i would like very much that i finished myself with it.” — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man. — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of… — John Donne Copy Share Image
