
I contemplated pride and love. All this
contemplativeness. When will I be free of it? —
Robert Walser

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-
contemplativeness. —
Sara Coleridge

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific
contemplativeness. —
Niels Bohr