No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.