Definition of Contemplation

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Contemplation

The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

Holy meditation.

The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

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Contemplation Quotations

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

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Diane Arbus

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

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 Translations

contemplation in French is contemplation
contemplation in German is Betrachtung
contemplation in Italian is considerazione
contemplation in Latin is contemplatio

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