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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


#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

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


Niklaus Wirth


#consists #contemplation #design #new #old

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


Eduard Hanslick


#affects #aims #art #beautiful #contemplation

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


#contemplation #general #just #monks #our

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


Bell Hooks


#created #i #life #service #style

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


#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

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


Samuel Alexander


#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

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


Aristotle


#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

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


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#eventually #explain #how #may #philosophy

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


Randolph Bourne


#contemplation #even #exhaust #few #few people






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