Contemplation Quotes And Sayings

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“Painting is a means by which certain great people in the past have attained to a maximum of being and self-awareness, and we can increase our own reality by the contemplation of their works.”
– Francis Hoyland

“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom –such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it –those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never trust a thought that didn’t come by walking.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.”
– Fulton J. Sheen

“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”
– Gabriel Marcel

“The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”
– Gabriel Marcel

“Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action”
– George Gillespie

“Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.”
– Harold Klemp

“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.”
– Isaac Asimov

“The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.”
– Isaac D’Israeli

“Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.”
– James Harrington

“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.”
– James Monroe

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”
– Jane Austen

“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.”
– Jane Smiley

“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”
– Jean Arp

“Slow down and live in the moment. Take the time to reflect on what you have done and where you are headed.”
– Jil Ashton-Leigh

“To broaden one’s prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.”
– Joel T. McGrath

“Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.”
– John Gay

“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
– John J. Chapman

“Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.”
– John Mason Neale

“I’m having the time of my life figuring out this next move.”
– John Mayer

“Him that yon soars on golden wing, / Guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, / The Cherub Contemplation.”
– John Milton

“For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.”
– John Milton

“Wisdom’s self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.”
– John Milton

“What distinguishes – in both senses of that word – contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. ‘Without love there would be no contemplation.’ Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.”
– Josef Pieper

“The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.”
– Josef Pieper

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