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«There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
avoidance, contaminate, contaminated, contemplate, equal to, inflict
«The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.»
«Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts»
«The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate H»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
adore, contemplate, investigation, penetrate, suitable
«O Men! Look at the divine deeds of Vishnu; contemplate and then follow them.»
«There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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contemplate, inevitability, willingness
«We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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attainable, contemplate, dead soul, get rid of, profess, professes, professing, The Argument
«My mind is pierced through by the Name of the Lord. What else should I contemplate?»
«We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.»
«To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Beautiful Thing, contemplate, contemplated, courageous, for one, one-man, useful
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