Zitat des Tages über Betrachtung / Contemplation:
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
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.
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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.
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.
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.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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.
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
