Quotes About Search

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience

Man is a being in search of meaning.

According to Greek mythology, humans were orginally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them in two seperate beings, condeming them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.

Two virtues remain to be discovered in the State—first, temperance, and then justice which is the end of our search. Very true. Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? I do not know how that can be accomplished, he said, nor do I desire that justice should be brought to light and temperance lost sight of; and therefore I wish that you would do me the favour of considering temperance first. Certainly

I would not swear that my argument is right down to the last word, but I would fight to the last breath, both in word and deed, that we will be better men – brave instead of lazy – if we will believe we must search for the things we do not know; if we will refuse to believe it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that there is no point in looking.

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

In quei giorni e in quei luoghi, poco dopo il passaggio de fronte, un vento alto spirava sulla faccia della terra: il mondo intorno a noi sembrava ritornato al Caos primigenio, e brulicava di esemplari umani scaleni, difettivi, abnormi; e ciascuno di essi si agitava in moti ciechi o deliberati, in ricerca affannosa della propria sede, della propria sfera, come praticamente si narra delle particelle dei quattro elementi nelle cosmogonie degli antichi.

She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take.

Mirnin: Where's Shreve?

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? But realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.

I haven't been able to reach her. And if I can't reach her, there's no way to keep her from being lost.

I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.

where you're scanned for

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

for every loss there is an equal or greater gain. Often humans have to search for it, though.