Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul,… — William Hazlitt
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it — Tryon Edwards
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. — John Milton
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving… — Namkhai Norbu
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory. — Viktor E. Frankl
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its… — Paul Auster
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary… — Anwar Sadat
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful… — Unknown Author
. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was… — Viktor E. Frankl
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for… — William Butler Yeats
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and… — R. Kent Hughes
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is… — Gautama Buddha
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect… — Angeles Arrien
Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved in… — Unknown Author
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and… — Unknown Author
It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious… — Dalai Lama
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it… — Plato
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.… — Plato
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song. — Hafez
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic… — Unknown Author
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer… — Alexander Herzen
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

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