Best 237 quotes in «contemplation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

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

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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

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

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

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

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

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

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.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

A fish-trap is for catching fish; once you've caught the fish, you can forget about the trap. A rabbit-snare is for catching rabbits; once you've caught the rabbit, you can forget about the snare. Words are for catching ideas; once you've caught the idea, you can forget about the words. Where can I find a person who knows how to forget about words so that I can have a few words with them?

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

A life not truly lived is hurt and fear, not healed or acknowledged.