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Contemplation Quotes by Josef Pieper
- 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…
- 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…
- The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom…
- The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in…
- What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love…
- The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
- ... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
- The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything…
- Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity…
More Contemplation Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. — Jacob Bronowski
- It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation,… — Samuel Alexander
- Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. — Nicolas Chamfort
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own… — John Jay Chapman
- If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art… — Sri Chinmoy
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho
- Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. — Thomas Aquinas
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Diane Arbus