Contemplates Quotes

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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
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. — Francis Picabia
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibranâ€™s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlighteningâ€”itâ€™s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism… — Khalil
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
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God. — Brother Lawrence
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
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
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
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself. — Remy de Gourmont

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