What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own
Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.
A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.