Contemplation Quotes

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

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

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

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

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

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 act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

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

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.