"You should live in a manner that should……" — F. Sionil Jose
"You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window."
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F. Sionil Jose
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58 Quotes by F. Sionil Jose
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct.…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in…
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so…
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More Contemplation Quotes
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of…
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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