The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]
Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.