Contemplation Quotes

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

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

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

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

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

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

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

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

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

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

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

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

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.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,
by all those that still live.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

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.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

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

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

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

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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

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

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

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

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

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.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

There is no art without contemplation.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

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.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

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

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

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

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

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

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

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 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.

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

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