Contemplation Quotes
Thinking about thinking.
One writer calls a private hell the forced contemplation of your own work; another argues we become victims of whatever we spend time thinking about. These quotes treat contemplation less as passive daydreaming and more as something with real consequences.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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...
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