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• The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Fashion, Insecure, Men

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Long, Progress

  " The Guardian profile: Dan Brown" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2004.

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• To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

  John Piper

  Joy, Soul, Finals

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.87, Multnomah

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• Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Lying, Intellectual, Certain

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

  Henry Vaughan

  Men, Passages

  'Man' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

  Lyman Abbott

  Art, Government, Essence

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

  William James

  Lying, Character, Men

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Struggle, Perception, Enlightenment

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

  Leo Strauss

  Ignorant, Important, Realizing

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Goal, Humanity, Desire

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• If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Careers, Creating

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• The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". Book by Albert Schweitzer, transl. by W. Montgomery, 1906.

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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• The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  School, Safety, Atheism

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• Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

  Sidney Hook

  Spiritual, Religious, Humility

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• Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

  Ida Tarbell

  Truth, Men, Essentials

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.24, Ravenio Books

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• At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.

  William Rehnquist

  Heart, Expression, Ideas

  "Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46". The U.S. Supreme Court case, www.law.cornell.edu. February 24, 1988.

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• Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Rocks, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.89, OUP Oxford

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Apology, Essence

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• The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Spiritual, Privilege, Common

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Giving, Example, Satisfaction

  "Do Both Science and Faith Produce Truth?". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Reality, Thinking, Doe

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Two, Knowing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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