"Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and……" — Iain Pears
"Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless."
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25 Quotes by Iain Pears
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He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he…
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath…
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The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,
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He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
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Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes…
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Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius…
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[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the…
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what…
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God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of…
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Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been…
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Who you are is less important than what you seem.
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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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