Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that ...increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commande...d must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us... by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself i...n some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nev...ertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature in darkness groans And men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night:... Restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain Feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words Of stern philosophy & knead the bread of knowledge with tears & groans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life ...and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own... contemplation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »