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
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
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
“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Contemplation is a roadmap to doubt. Mom calls me impulsive. I like to think i'm intuitive. If you think about something...anything...long enough,… — Brooklyn James Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is best to step back and observe the situation from outside. Renouncing action does not mean defeat it is a… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds. — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation… — Andrew Bowen Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms 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 poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“He sees the truth as with a jolt. There it is, within his own being, lying deep down but still in his… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man. — Corinne Heline 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 ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
