Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if… — Rowan Williams
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it… — Aristotle
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never… — Jay Smith
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of… — Richard Lindzen
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. — Eve Ensler
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact.… — Rajneesh
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes… — Rajneesh
The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important… — Matt Groening
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in… — Thomas Merton
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs
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
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth… — Norman Cousins
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same… — Henry David Thoreau
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives… — Bertrand Russell
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. — Simone Weil

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