Contemplating Quotes - Page 6

• There's a common threat facing all of us - Christians, Jews, and Muslims - and that is the Antichrist. It's a very deep subject, and it's a horrendous thing to contemplate. Someone will appear who is, in fact, the opposite of what he appears to be. Some people will believe in him, and that's really frightening. In Islam, there's a belief that Jesus will return to destroy the Antichrist, which is something many people don't know about the Islamic faith.

  Cat Stevens

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press

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• I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Clever, Lying, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.230, Library of Alexandria

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• My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Moving, Writing, Intuition

  "Off the Page: Joyce Carol Oates". The WashingtonPost Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2003.

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• Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

  Robert Southey

  Death, Blessed, Quiet

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• Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

  Dean Cavanagh

  Winning, Mind, Cosmos

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• The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Winter, Forgiving

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• A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side

  Michael Mauboussin

  Thoughtful, Your Side, Ideas

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• When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Mind, Desire

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• If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Humility, Arrogance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

  Epictetus

  Art, Faculty, Certain

  Epictetus (1944). “Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion”

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• Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Thinking, Wind

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• My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

  Caterina Murino

  Animal, Koalas, Would Be

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• IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
  THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

  Dogen

  Exercise, Greed, Would Be

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• If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

  Johannes Kepler

  Book, Years, Waiting

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• Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Personality, Watches

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351

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• nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

  Molly Ivins

  Summer, Vacation, Civilization

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage

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• Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Thinking, House, Meditation

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.34, Aeterna Press

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• [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Lions, Kind

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Purity, Ability, Defilement

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.290, Routledge

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• HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF READING THIS TWEET U JUST GO SIT AND CONTEMPLATE THIS EARTH'S NATURAL BEAUTY

  Kool A.D.

  Reading, Natural, Tweet

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• To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Maintaining, Oneself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, Drink, Overrated

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• Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Needs, Sitting

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.29, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

  Donald Judd

  Powerful, Interesting, Quality

  Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein (2002). “Donald Judd: 1955-1968”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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