Quotes with seeks

  • Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
  • The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
  • The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
  • Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
  • The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
  • Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Voltaire Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Adolf Hitler All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Confucius What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Epictetus A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • John Gray A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Lee An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Aldous Huxley Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Bobby Seale But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Alan Paton 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
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • A. Alvarez Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Victor Hugo Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Arnold Bennett Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Chris Patten Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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  • William Penn He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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