One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature..

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity..

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition wi….

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most ….

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be count….

Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actua….

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love..

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation..

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit..

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

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery..

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activ….

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works..

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation..

I get recognized a lot now. It's great..

There is nothing more regenerating than music..

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?.

I love what I do for a living..

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous..

Things always work according to their nature..

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus.