Contemplative Quotes

• Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Lies

• Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • World
  • Atheism
  • Conquer

• This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.

  

  David Bentley
  • Reality
  • Simple
  • Prayer

• We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

  

  Nicholas G. Carr
  • Thinking
  • Printing
  • Contemplative

• How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Space
  • Design