Contemplation Quotes - Page 2

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

There is no art without contemplation.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.