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«When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power»
Author: Alston Chase
| About:
Knowledge,
Politics,
Power,
Truth
| Keywords:
advocacy, confused, political power, pursuit, quest, quest for, reduced, The Quest, The Search
«This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.»
Author: Billie Burke
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, humbler, quest for, self-sacrificing, usefulness
«We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.»
Author: Dora Russell
| Keywords:
guidance, heeded, impartial, Learning to, nearer, offering, quest, quest for
«The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter»
Author: Hendrick Willem Van Loon
| Keywords:
bread and butter, butter, History of the, History of the world, Our Daily Bread, quest, quest for
«The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail»
Author: Marc Feigen Fasteau
| About:
Masculinity
| Keywords:
biology, continual, grail, Holy Grail, quest, quest for, recede, recedes, receding, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
at bottom, cram, crammed, cramming, forbidden, in the beginning, like this, quest, quest for, spend-all, The Search, this one
«The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
destiny, inwards, journey, longest, quest, questing, quest after, quest for, source, started, The Longest Journey, The Source
«The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
blocks, certainty, impel, impelling, impels, quest, quest after, quest for, The Quest, The Search, uncertainty, unfold
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