Contemplation Quotes

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
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

William Butler Yeats
- Love
- Action
- Unique

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

Geoffrey Elton
- Future
- Present
- Buried
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dodie Smith
- Nothing
- Seems
- Costs
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

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

Isaac Watts
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