Contemplation Quotes - Page 3

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.