Quotes About Search

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he

Ha! The meaning of life. The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can't provide it but is also indifferent to their quest. That's not really Schopenhauer. That's more Kierkegaard via Camus. I'm with them. Trouble is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning, you start to need medical help.

Like soul-enhanced search engines.

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines. ... But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that comes clear.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely.

The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She

Who the fuck is Old Jolene?

By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.

The belief that human nature is essentially corrupt taints our vision of life with pessimism and makes us question the very basis of the search for happiness, that is, every human being's potential for perfection.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

Lo que atrae al escritor, lo que hace vibrar al artista, no es directamen­te la obra, sino su búsqueda, el movimiento que conduce a ella, la aproximación de lo que hace posible a la obra: el arte, la literatura y lo que disimulan estas dos palabras. - El libro que vendrá. (p. 223)

Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.

Then he stopped, in amazement. 'Why he's blue!' he cried. 'It's my dove just the same, but he has turned blue - ! Why, it's the Blue Bird we were looking for! We have been miles and miles, and he was here all the time! He was here at home! Oh, how wonderful!

In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunger even in the most degraded of lives. For indeed nothing of beauty can pass by and be altogether unperceived. Perhaps does it never pass by save only in our unconsciousness, but its action is no less puissant in gloom of night than by light of day; the joy it procures may be less tangible, but other difference there is none.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.

Can it beI am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky,looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Because the gliding search of our life Is lacking in one quality, amusement, We shall often return To evenings, men, and walls of stone.

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find.