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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

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

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

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

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

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

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

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

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

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

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

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

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

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

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

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

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

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

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

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

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

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

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

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

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

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

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

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

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.

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

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

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

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

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

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.

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.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

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.

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.

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?

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