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“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.”

Desire Fingers Dust Coal Parliament Miners

Author:Betty Boothroyd

“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.”

Dream Desire Stars Higher Ambition Worship Dignity Madness Dust Hills Goddess Soar Leaving Me Mistress Weeping My Ambition Azure

Book:Imogen: And Other Poems

Source: Imogen: And Other Poems

“But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.”

Ifs Men Moving Desire Differences Cities Fire Generations Activity Eternal Labor Foundation Dust Gates Atoms City Of God

Book:The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation