Contemplation Quotes

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkn...

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy...

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

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisu...

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and...

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and u...

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control o...

It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in pra...

Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, sma...

By thinking of things you could understand them.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth ...

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

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry emp...

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing whi...

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried ...

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we ...

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent...

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the...

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony...

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really beli...

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who ...

Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and mu...

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a tra...

There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the...

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks,...

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

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, hear...

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive ...

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts t...

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a...

There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, th...

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see i...

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude i...

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround ...

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of i...

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

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

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growin...

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is j...

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we fin...

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...

the night of thought is the light of perception.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the ...