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Letter "C" » contemplation
«The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
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Action,
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contemplation, cutting, cuttings, cutting edge, edge, Edge of, grasped, the Hand
«Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action»
«The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.»
«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.»
«The willing contemplation of vice is vice»
«There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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accessible, beckon, beckoned, beckoning, beckons, contemplation, inspection, liberation, partly, riddle
«This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.»
Author: Buddha
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aim, contemplation, effort, eightfold, mindfulness, path, speech, that is to say, view
«There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.»
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.»
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