Quotes by Contemplation Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life. John Cowper Powys contemplationpreachermachines If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos contemplationspecialwould-be The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contemplativecontemplationaction Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contemplationselfaction I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. John Mayer contemplationnext-movemoving Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contemplationexcellenttaste Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contemplationexcellenttaste Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse. John Milton contemplationnurse The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. Josef Pieper contemplationactivelife-is 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. Joshua Reynolds contemplationendeavori-can Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation. Kenneth Rexroth contemplationeroticlove-is Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. Khalil Gibran contemplationanchorshome The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den. Lewis H. Lapham framedcontemplationfire It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. Lionel Trilling badnesscontemplationspiritual Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. Ludwig van Beethoven contemplationinspirationspirit The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. M. Scott Peck contemplationaction Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. Madame de Stael contemplationformgenius The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. Mahatma Gandhi contemplationand-loveeducation Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception. Martin Laird contemplationjupiterbook That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. Meister Eckhart contemplationlovemen«12345»
