Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace
Hermann HesseStichwörter: peace light striving buddha calmness desiring imitiating repose seeking
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: seeking compensation searching
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert CamusStichwörter: truth honesty absurd existentialism seeking
Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seeking
And finding.
Stichwörter: poetry seeking finding walt-whitman
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Anne RiceStichwörter: knowledge questions courage risk daring uncertainty seeking asking
The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps.
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
Bede GriffithsI did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.
Umberto EcoStichwörter: truth seeking suspicion
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
Blaise PascalStichwörter: humanity mankind praise humankind condemnation seeking
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all.
Bertha: What's that?
Socrates: Philosophy.
Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here.
Socrates: Where are they?
Bertha: In the philosophy department.
Socrates: Philosophy is not department.
Bertha: Well, we have philosophers.
Socrates: Are they dangerous?
Bertha: Of course not.
Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.
Stichwörter: philosophy truth-telling seeking
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