Contemplation Quotes

• The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

  

  William Penn
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

  

  William Golding
  • Men
  • Dying
  • Sat

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

  

  Dodie Smith
  • Nothing
  • Seems
  • Costs

• The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Future
  • Present
  • Buried

• The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Artist
  • Contemplation
  • Workman

• I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Discover
  • Contemplation

• Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Sentiments
  • Contemplation
  • Deities

• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  

  William Blake
  • Philosophy
  • Sorrow
  • Groans

• Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Works
  • Contemplation
  • Active Life

• In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • Natural
  • State
  • Continue

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

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Teaching
  • Decided
  • Contemplation

• To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

  

  George Spencer-Brown
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Needs

• To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.

  

  Anthony John Patrick Kenny
  • Mind
  • Senses
  • Contemplation

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

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Freedom
  • Limitation
  • Contemplation

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

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Thinking
  • Inspiring
  • Miserable

• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Woman
  • Beauty
  • Contemplation

• I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Inspiration
  • Mirror
  • Governs

• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Secret
  • Meditation
  • Repose

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