Doubt & Inquiry

If destruction is violence, creation, too, is violence. Procreation, therefore, involves violence. The creation of what is bound to perish certainly involves violence.

Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth

This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings & Essays

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions

We may disagree with Randi on certain points, but we ignore him at our peril.

Carl Sagan Cosmos & Pale Blue Dot

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl Man's Search for Meaning

That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali & Stray Birds

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Hannah Arendt The Human Condition

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity

In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness

Systems seem, like certain worms, to be formed by a kind of generatio aequivoca--by the mere confluence of conceptions, and to gain completeness only with the progress of time.

Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason

If Max Müller is thus the old pioneer of the new movement, Deussen is certainly one of its younger advance-guard.

Swami Vivekananda Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

怒而撓之 • If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.

Sun Tzu The Art of War

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Cicero De Officiis & Tusculan Disputations

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Augustine of Hippo Confessions

I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural.

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

The essence of the good is a certain kind of moral purpose, and that of the evil is a certain kind of moral purpose.

Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Socrates Apology (via Plato)

to seek office oneself and not await compulsion is thought disgraceful. But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato The Republic & Dialogues

Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

The core and the surface Are essentially the same Words making them seem different Only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Laozi Tao Te Ching

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Zhuangzi Zhuangzi

I say that on three instances meat should not be partaken, when seen, heard or when there is a doubt.

Gautama Buddha Dhammapada & Sutta Pitaka

Even though you're not equipped,keep searching:equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

Rumi Masnavi & Divan-e Shams

O Voltaire! O humaneness! O nonsense! There is something about "truth", about the search for truth; and when a human being is too human about it- "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"- I bet he finds nothing.

Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra & Beyond Good and Evil