Man Seeks Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in…
— Sai Baba
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,…
— Jean Cocteau
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
— Horace Mann
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All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance…
— Meher Baba
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
— Confucius
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from…
— Alfred Kinsey
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As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
— Robert Harris
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
— Socrates
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I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today…
— Jon Foreman
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
— R C Sproul
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A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.
— Larry Burkett
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
— Adyashanti
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere…
— Robert Browning
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And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself…
— Max Stirner
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
— Epictetus
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The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks…
— Frederick Lenz
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