Contemplation Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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