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«The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril»
Author: Alfred Loisy | About: Truth | Keywords: peril, priest, The Search
«When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power»
«The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian»
«The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.»
«The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine -- and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine -- the servant of man. . . . That is the revolution that is coming. . . . It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.»
«The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.»
«Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.»
«The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.»
«The search for truth is more precious than its possession.»
«We should not be so taken up in the search for truth; as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue»

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