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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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.

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.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

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

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

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

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

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

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.