Quotes by Contemplation It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. Thomas Aquinas contemplation perfection men Better to illuminate than merely to shine. Thomas Aquinas contemplation contemplating shining 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 contemplative-life contemplation practice Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle contemplation disease self Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. Thomas Merton contemplation this-life eternity Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it Tryon Edwards contemplation digestion way Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim Vincent de Paul contemplation faith doe The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground. Wayne Dyer contemplation flying law It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself Wayne Dyer contemplation want desire Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. William Butler Yeats ecstasy contemplation individuality If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos own contemplation hell special The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation. Michael Finkel fact everything thought contemplation I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. Piet Mondrian contemplation architecture want time Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present. Oscar Hijuelos present contemplation past thinking Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich. F. Sionil Jose contemplation luxury rich class «12345