Contemplation Quote by Samuel Alexander

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

— Samuel Alexander

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

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

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

— Isaac D'Israeli

“The act of contemplation and what contemplates—to return to our own terminology—are essentially one with the pure Act, pure Being. On the contrary, what…

— Leo Schaya

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

— Herbert Read

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are…

— Herbert Read

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

— Radhanath Swami

“When we are feeling low, we don’t even feel like taking bath. Although that is when we need bath the most. When misunderstanding is…

— Shunya

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

— Umberto Eco

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer