Sentence examples for it is the contemplation of from inspiring English sources

It seems that in Numenius it is the contemplation of the first intellect by the second that gives rise to the forms, or Platonic ideas; Origen, as a Christian, holds that the contemplation is mutual, since "no-one knows the Son but the Father and no-one knows the Father but the Son" (Matthew 11.27).

The best form of philosophy is the contemplation of the universe of nature; it is for this purpose that God made human beings and gave them a godlike intellect.

The aim of such a life has traditionally been the contemplation of God and the pursuit of Christian perfection (theologically defined as perfect love).

It is this contemplation of the interaction between performer and task that drives our taxonomy as we elaborate below.

It is the enemy of contemplation.

It is only the contemplation of actual criminals that encourages any tolerance for Brett Favre.

The grim joke here is that it's not the contemplation of unspeakable catastrophe that has reduced Ben to this state.

It is the classic gesture of contemplation, familiar to both General MacArthur and Jack Benny, and Clare manages to emanate both their moods at once — grave but also strangely comical.

There Aristotle argues that the life of contemplation is happiness because it is the virtue of the highest part of the soul, reason.

But such are the contemplations of the nuclear priesthood.

Some think the happy life is the life of enjoyment; the more refined think it is the life of political activity; others think it is the life of study or theoretical contemplation (1095b10 20).