Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

There is no art without contemplation.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

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

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.

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