Contemplates Quotes

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Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds,… — Euripides
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant… — Carl Jung
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… — Robert Southey
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which… — Thomas Aquinas
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. — Joseph Joubert
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. — David Hume
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that… — Khalil Gibran
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull… — Ayn Rand
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on,… — William Congreve
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. — Khalil Gibran
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself… — Honore de Balzac
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,… — Maurice Blanchot
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There… — Holly Black
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love. — Julian of Norwich
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. — William Ernest Hocking

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