Contemplation Quotes

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

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

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

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

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.