The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us... by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our poverty... is as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they... knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded ho...pe, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a m...an discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet the day wears, And door succeeds door;... I try the fresh fortune-- Range the wide house from the wing to the centre, Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter. Spend my whole day in the quest,--who cares?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sink back shuddering from the quest. Earth being so good, would Heaven seem best?... Now, Heaven and she are beyond this ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the e...ndless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: "W...here was I before I was born." In the beginning was ... what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass ...to 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »