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seeker
«As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
degrades, pleasure seeker, seeker, sought
«In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.»
«Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.»
«It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.»
«If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, seeker
« I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally. It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp. You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou -- then you are it! »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
arrive, closer, coming, disappears, distinction, elusive, escapes, grasp, ineffable, mystery, seeker, sought, The Ultimate, thou, totally, ultimate
«Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.»
«No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
calamity, desirable, disappointed, every year, experiment, liberator, mysterious, on the contrary, seeker, trickery, truer
«The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
agony, ash, atom, chunk, chunks, heap, ponderable, represents, roasting, seeker, The Seekers, toil