Quotes About Pursuit

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in their everyday lives.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of 'adaptation through maladaptation' which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

The hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.

Alle Menschen verschwanden. Das Ding, das sie jagte, war vielleicht nur das Leben selbst.

Anyone who worked with him will recall the moment when his face softened into a knowing smile. It was the moment he thought he had the answer. That smile was the same smile he wore when he wrote an opinion that wrote itself. He loved the truth, and his smile betrayed the peace and joy he found in its pursuit.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.

Great gifts and achievements early in life are simply not an insurance policy against suffering later on. On the contrary, studies show that people who have chased power and achievement in their professional lives tend to be unhappier after retirement than people who did not.

Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.

I have an obsession for quality.

I'm on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.