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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. ↗

— Simone Weil

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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

— Aristotle

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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

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