Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?"
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Contemplating
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Italo Calvino
Writer
"The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves"
George Russell
Composer
"We become what we habitually contemplate"
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine."
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"He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it."
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"We become what we contemplate."
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"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
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"To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves."
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"If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself."
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"And we came forth to contemplate the stars."
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"We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation."
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"Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body."
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"They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence."
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"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
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"There is no art without contemplation."
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"Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement."
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"Purity is the power to contemplate defilement."
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"So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate."
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"To contemplate is to look at shadows."
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"Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings."
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"Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl."
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"He that contemplates hath a day without night."
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"Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening."
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