309 Quotes About Contemplation

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experience what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth.

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

Lama aku memandang ke semburan-semburan lidah api yang meleleh ke bawah itu. Elok, ya, indah. Banyak yang kejam keji tampak indah dari kejauhan.

If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

I loaf and invite my soul.

So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence – we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.