Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
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The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.. He must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified.. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.
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There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
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The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
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A severed hand <br/>Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars <br/> and his history.. For contemplation or in fact.. <br/>Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, <br/> the greatest beauty is <br/>Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty <br/> of the universe. Love that, not man <br/>Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, <br/> or drown in despair when his days darken.
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.
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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design
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It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
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Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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Our third concert in the series, 'To the Sweet Mystery of Time,' begins with the timelessness of the dream state and ends in poignant contemplation of our mortality.
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