Contemplation Quotes
533 quotes by 355 authors
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and…
— Salman Rushdie
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
— John Marshall
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
— Paulo Coelho
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Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
— George Santayana
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
— Aldous Huxley
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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life…
— Norman Cousins
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
— Gabriel Marcel
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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
— Midge Decter
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve,…
— William L. Shirer
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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
— Saint Augustine
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
— Sri Aurobindo
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But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
— Max Born
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes…
— Humphry Davy
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