T Quotes
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“The search for a material paradise is a flight away from humanity into the sterile nonlife of mechanisms where everything is perfect until it becomes junk.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.”
“The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.”
Source: The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.”
“The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.”
“The search for a policy to overcome original sin is not a coherent political project.”
Source: Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
“The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.”
“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never more vigorous than it is now. And more than ever before is the demand for competent men in excess of the supply.
What we are all looking for, however, is the readymade, competent man; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom some one else has trained, that we shall be on the road to national efficiency.
In the past the prevailing idea has been well expressed in the saying that “Captains of industry are born, not made”; and the theory has been that if one could get the right man, methods could be safely left to him. In the future it will be appreciated that our leaders must be trained right as well as born right, and that no great man can (with the old system of personal management) hope to compete with a number of ordinary men who have been properly organized so as efficiently to cooperate.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”
Source: The Principles of Scientific Management
“The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.”
“The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.”
“The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“The search for God begins at the point of need.”
Source: Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith
“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.”
“The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.”
“The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”
“The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.”
Source: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird
“The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.”
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.”
“The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.”
“The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.”
“The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.”
“The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.”
“The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.”
“The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.”
“The search for knowledge requires effort.”
“The Search for love can sometimes be never-ending.”
“The search for meaning can be through religion but it can also be through art and tapestry. It can be through prayer but it can also be through music and sport. It's whatever provides you with that sense of belonging.”
“The Search for Meaning in an Infinite Universe would be a cold venture, without your hands around a warm cup of coffee and kindness, as a form of Infinity.”
“The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”
Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
“The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.”
“The search for perfection is a subtle drug. It draws the mind along circuitous routes, deeper and deeper into itself, until nothing can be seen except the ideal. Desire blinds one to purpose, and thus renders true perfection impossible.”
Source: Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix
“The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.”
“The search for purpose and meaning is fundamentally human; the uniting trait of our species.”
Source: The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose
“The search for real love does not take you to your destination, but it teaches you how to feel when you get there.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.”
“The search for religion is the starting point of thought.”
“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”
Source: The Maslow Business Reader
“The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.”
Source: Towards a true refuge
“The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.”
“The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.”
“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.”
“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.”
Source: The Unnamable
“The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.”