#seeks

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

— Alexander Cockburn

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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

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#course #democracy #development #directions #finds

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

#ask #both #find #forget #greatness

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. ↗

— Plautus

#gain #must #seeks #some #who

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. ↗

— Alan Paton

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