Seeks Quotes

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because… — E F Schumacher
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. — Dylan Thomas
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. — Paul Valery
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. — Voltaire
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification… — Moshe Safdie
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you… — Dag Hammarskjold
But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in… — Ayn Rand
When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find… — Hermann Hesse
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed… — Herman Melville
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a… — Oscar Wilde
I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates… — P. C. Cast
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that… — Dante Alighieri

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