Best 237 quotes in «contemplation quotes» category

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

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

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

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

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

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

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

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

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.

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

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

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

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

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

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

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

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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.

The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form 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.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

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.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

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

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.