No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything. — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak 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
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support. — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we… — Bob DuPuy Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over… — Paul Brunton 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
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“So impossible it is for a man who looks no further than the present world to fix himself long in a contemplation… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Any act which is done for others is considered as dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image