Best 237 quotes in «contemplation quotes» category

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

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

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

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.

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

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

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.

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

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

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

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

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

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

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.

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

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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

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.