Best 58 quotes in «contemplating quotes» category

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

There is no art without contemplation.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

He’s always looking out windows, contemplating something.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

Communicating is not the same as forgiving. Forgiving is communicating while contemplating life.

We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

Her thoughts spun. There were objects in the window of a shop that she couldn't quite fathom: possibly candy, possibly gems and crystals. There were so many alien things about this world she still didn't know. There were so many more things in the rest of the world, both above and below the sea, that were yet to be discovered.... "You okay, Ariel? You seem a little, I dunno, worried or spacey or something," Scuttle said. "I just... I was just thinking about past choices and future possibilities." "Huh. Deep stuff. Well, the world's your oyster after today.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.