Quote of Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach - The first philosophers were astronomers. The...
Biography - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach:
German philosopher and anthropologist.
Born: 1804 - Died: 1872
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1804 - Died: 1872
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
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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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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.
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