Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the… — Solomon Northup
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,… — Peter York
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the… — Rudolf Steiner
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly… — Brian D. McLaren
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant… — Carl Jung
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. — Thomas Carlyle
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. — Michelangelo
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. — Gautama Buddha
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where… — Leonardo da Vinci
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait. — Henri Matisse
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the… — Vincent Van Gogh
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. — Elizabeth Janeway
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. — Sathya Sai Baba
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name… — Sathya Sai Baba
I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others. — Joshua Reynolds
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and… — Plotinus
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds. — Paul Twitchell
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great… — Alex Grey
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in… — Charles Gounod
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation. — Herbert Read
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer

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