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" Quotes and Sayings About contemplation

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

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation…

Huge Human Stand Great
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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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.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Alone Contemplation Effect Felt
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

One cannot Absorbed Emptiness Increasingly attracted
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No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Person Time Limitation Freedom
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Plant Contemplation Harvest Action
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Man Contemplation Love
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