Contemplation Quote by Gabriel Marcel Download Open image “The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.” — Gabriel Marcel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplation Knows Life Meditation Men Running Wisdom Wise Wise man
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem.… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
