The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship. — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. — James Payn Copy Share Image
Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
