Contemplating Quote by Agnes Repplier

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

— Peter Brook

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

— Samuel Rogers

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to…

— Ralph Barton Perry

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction,…

— Richard Rohr

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think…

— Jonathan Meades

“For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.”

— Nynke Visser

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people…

— Corra May Harris

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world”

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

“But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge