#seek

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#lost #seeks #travel #valleys #world

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#order #seeking

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#consciousness #considering #derive #forces #general

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#desire #everything #honor #idol #idols

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#been #elsewhere #frantically #horse #may

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#behind #capable #citizens #favor #federalism

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. ↗

— Howard Crosby

#along #beginning #causation #coming #down

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#force #might #others #our #price

Seek home for rest, for home is best. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

#best #rest #seek