Contemplating Quotes - Page 23

• To hope till hope creates
  From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Hope, Wrecks, Unbound

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

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• Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

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• When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

  Ayn Rand

  Uplifting, Sky, Peculiar

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.713, Penguin

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Empowering, Ego

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• I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Clouds, Rocks, Order

  "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

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• When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

  Jodie Foster

  Lonely, Growing Up, Book

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• It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

  John Calvin

  Men, Faces, Firsts

  John Calvin, Mark DeVries, Kirk Freeman (1999). “Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group

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• But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

  Henri Poincare

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Prayer, Passion

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• When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Light, Who I Am, Names

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Zero, Mean

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

  Saint Augustine

  Delight, Contemplation, Teach

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• The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

  Italo Calvino

  Mirrors, Knows, Universe

  Italo Calvino (1985). “Mr. Palomar”, Harcourt

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• When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

  Plato

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.228

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• Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Hideous

  "Zucker wants to grow his own" by Alex Weprin, www.politico.com. July 11, 2014.

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

  Joshua Slocum

  Men, Light, Sea

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.

  Miguel Serrano

  Perseverance, War, Hero

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• The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Religious, Time

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2016

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• Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Brain, Proud

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• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Struggle, Secret

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• A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Mind, Tails

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley”

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