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Contemplation Quotes

The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

Thought Everything Contemplation May

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.

Lionel Trilling

Spiritual Will Possible Contemplation

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Opinion World Contemplation Offer

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful Pleasure Contemplation Pure

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

Luxury Nothing Contemplation Seems

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Leonardo da Vinci

Earth Reason Contemplation Senses

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

Randolph Bourne

Experience People Contemplation Own

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Animal Single Contemplation Bone Who

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

Legal Moral Pause Contemplation

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.

Past Thinking Present Contemplation

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.

Nature Art Mind Spirit Contemplation

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Alexander Herzen

Prayer World Spirit Contemplation

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

Orison Swett Marden

Excellence Contemplation Clear Our

What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?

Never Birth Theme Contemplation High

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

George Gillespie

Action Contemplation Reformation Ends

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Jacob Bronowski

World Action Contemplation Only

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

John Dos Passos

Hell Special Contemplation Own Would

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

Time Architecture Want Contemplation

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Isaac D'Israeli

Contemplation Act Created Then Thing

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

Gary Shteyngart

Want Entertainment Contemplation Just

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

Meister Eckhart

Love Man Contemplation Out He Takes

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Addiction Contemplation Consciousness

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Samuel Alexander

Reflection Ideas Class Contemplation

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

Home Wisdom Man Contemplation Them

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