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«Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers»
«The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.»
«Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.»
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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«The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
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conservative, crimes, culture, notions, sacred, seeks, uncertainty
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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«Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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seeks
«The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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manufacture, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, saves, seeks, sinners, The Church
«One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Nature,
Truth
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claims, Dharma, recompense, recompenses, recompensing, seeks, transcends, vessel
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