"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates." — Joseph Joubert

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external… — Saint Basil
• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. — Francis Picabia
• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its… — Thomas Paine
• A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms
• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he… — James Hutton
• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...… — Soren Kierkegaard
• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the… — Chelsea Manning
• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world… — Edward Abbey
• Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive… — John Herschel
• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and… — William Penn
• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is… — Hildegard of Bingen

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