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

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the hi….

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation..

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

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you..

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….

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal..

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….

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

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant..

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

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

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action..

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius..

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities..