Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.†“That sounds more like a poison than a person,†was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,†Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.
Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap. Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye. "Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream