"Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease." — Thomas Carlyle

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• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He… — Isaac Asimov
• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation… — Teresa of Avila
• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne
• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. — Jacob Bronowski
• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects… — Samuel Alexander
• Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. — Nicolas Chamfort
• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of… — John Jay Chapman
• If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the… — Sri Chinmoy
• All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,… — Paulo Coelho
• Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. — Thomas Aquinas
• 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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