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Contemplation Quotes
Thinking about thinking.
One writer calls a private hell the forced contemplation of your own work; another argues we become victims of whatever we spend time thinking about. These quotes treat contemplation less as passive daydreaming and more as something with real consequences.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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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.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
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