Quotes About Contemplate

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

human behaviour lie not only in the past but in man's ability to contemplate the future, or estimate probabilities:

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Did you get your presents from me? I asked. Nikki. Doc grimaced. You're sick. I answered the door, and there were two girls in Nazi outfits and a nun. What's wrong with you? Fuck, Doc. I was just having fun. How about you, Mr. Udo? Did you enjoy your gifts? My wife is like my air, he said. Huh? Without her, I cannot live, She is my air. I stood there feeling like a giant prick. I had tried to contaminate his air.

Vivere est Cogitare

It was crazy to run and crazy not to run. How could a boy look past the school's property line, see that free and living world beyond, and not contemplate a dash to freedom? To write one's own story for once. To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity

One of his favorite lines was that talking is overrated.

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Thinking is my fighting.

He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Deliberate often--decide once.

Well, what do you think I should do?" "Button raised a kindly brow. "Dow you want me to tell you if I think you should be wise, or unwise?" "Well... yes." Button smiled sadly. "But which is which?

As he walked past shops and teahouses he could still

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stopped before high

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!

think think think until you blink

The question is there, whther we answer it or not.

However, six times throughout day and night I contemplate samsara's defects and feel disenchanted by it.