Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. — Ayn Rand
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. — Gautama Buddha
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result… — Charles Caleb Colton
If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair… — Dante Alighieri
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me… — David Knopfler
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful… — Elizabeth Janeway
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of… — Emile Durkheim
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. — Isaac D'Israeli
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt… — James Monroe
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /… — John Milton
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a… — Josef Pieper
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God… — Josef Pieper
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to… — M. Scott Peck
Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition.… — Marcus Aurelius
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model… — Margaret Mead
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we… — Rene Descartes

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