Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
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.
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.
The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.