Contemplates Quotes
50 quotes by 41 authors
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
— Saint Basil
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
— Francis Picabia
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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
— Thomas Paine
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A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
— Richard Helms
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity…
— James Hutton
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United…
— Chelsea Manning
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
— Edward Abbey
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a…
— John Herschel
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
— William Penn
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois,…
— Miguel Serrano
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Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism…
— Khalil
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To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
— Brother Lawrence
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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
— James G. Frazer
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An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
— Remy de Gourmont
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