Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - A rock pile ceases to be...
Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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Quotes for: contemplation
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.
The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.
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