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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.
G. H. Hardy
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Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
Thomas Merton
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Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now
Anne Heche
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
Isaac D'Israeli
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It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
Henri Nouwen
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Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
Margo Jefferson
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Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
William Kingdon Clifford
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe