Sentence examples for pure contemplation from inspiring English sources
And when the public is kept off the lawn's great, grassy oval, it becomes a thing of pure contemplation, just like the newly visible reservoir.
In other words, true aesthetic interest is autonomous, standing outside the current of ordinary human feeling an attitude of pure contemplation or pure "intuition" that isolates its object from the stream of common events and perceives it in its uniqueness, detached, unexplained, and inexplicable.
By contrast, Alexander suggests that one might lead — or at least strive for— a god-like life of pure contemplation.
He even censured Archimedes for not having assigned sufficient importance to utility and for having been too prone to direct his projects towards pure contemplation.
Aristotle had similarly argued that a life of pure contemplation is beyond our strictly human capacity; we can live in this way only to the extent that we have in us "something divine" [NE 10.7, 1177b].
Should philosophers act politically (and if so, should they engage in ordinary politics in existing regimes, or work to establish new ones), or should they abstain from politics in order to live a life of pure contemplation?
But an exquisite combination of sculptural form, color, surface and craftsmanship elevates each to a transcendental realm of pure aesthetic contemplation.
At the same time, the poet's mind is always being tugged away from pure aesthetic contemplation toward the evanescent filler of his own private experience, "the friends / Who came to see me, of what yesterday / Was like".
Iamblichus, for instance, had denied that pure thought or contemplation could bring about union with the divine.
The mental image serves as a focus for the contemplation of pure consciousness, and a mystical reduction of experience to pure consciousness may ensue.
What it says about history, heritage and culture represents much of what I love about wine, which has a story to tell, in a voice that invites both contemplation and pure pleasure.
