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" As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. "

Arthur Conan Doyle

" But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. "

Samuel Alexander

" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich. "

" Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. "

" Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. "

Randolph Bourne

" I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. "

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

John Dos Passos

" I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. "

Gary Shteyngart

" It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views. "

" I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. "

" Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present. "

" Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. "

John Jay Chapman

" Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action. "

George Gillespie

" 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

" The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. "

Isaac D'Israeli

" The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. "

Jacob Bronowski

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

Meister Eckhart

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