“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.” ThinkingMindUsedUnderstandingGoalKnowingIntellectualSakePracticalsUsed To BeDevotedPursuedMind ThinkingKnowing And Understanding Author:Gary Gutting
“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.” MenWorldMayChildrenJobsOrderChanceCasesKnowingDoubtSacrificePossibilityCompetitionSakeChosenConfusionSuitsOperationsVulnerabilityUpbringingExclusionBleak Author:Anna Ford
“People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.” PeopleCausesKnowingSakeSecrecy Author:William Hazlitt
“If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.” IfsWorldWantDoneRememberChristKnowingThis WorldDutyBlessingSakeConsecration Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.” MindHas BeensEndsWould BeActionForgetRoomsKnowledgeKnowingLearningConstitutionSakeFortunateMercifulRubbish Author:Anna Brackett
“... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.” Has BeensUseSeemsActionFormMoralKnowingProgressLuckSakeVariousImprovementSmallestDiscomfortAttending Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.” IfsMenInspirationalHeartCareChristianJoyTurnsReligiousPrayerWorryKnowingWiseProduceSakeDeedsTake CareKingdomsVainOrthodoxMisfortunesGood DeedsKingdom Of GodOwn BusinessNo WorriesTurn To GodJoy WithinHope In God Author:Seraphim of Sarov
“The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.” KnowingSake Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.” MenFeelsHumansSeemsEarthLife IsHuman BeingsSituationKnowingFateStrangeFellowsSakeConnectedWorriedDaily LifeUninvitedIndebtedness Author:Albert Einstein