#searching

The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#knowledge #searching #truth #inspirational

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ↗

— William Greider

#covering #drama #essentially #events #human

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #because #coffee #end #feel

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives. ↗

— W. Scott Lineberry

#faith #fear #futility #healing #religion

Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other … I was looking for you. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#destiny #eternal-love #fate #fated-love #loss

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#always #another #get #high #i

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#get #i #imperfect #improvising #jazz

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#deluded #keep #mind #outside #own