The Search Continues

He who from day to day recognizes what he has not yet, and from month to month does not forget what he has attained to, may be said indeed to love to learn.
— Confucius

The advice which their friends have not the courage to give to kings is found written in books.
— Plutarch

The downfall of a magician is belief in his own magic.
— Anonymous

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed....
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with half a million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 80,000 people.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Is there no other way the world may live?
— Dwight David Eisenhower

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
— Quentin Crisp, in a speech given on 10-29-1980

Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.
— Attributed to Richard Barthell, Lord Westbury

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
— Francis Bacon, Apothegms

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Gene Fowler

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
— William Faulkner

Art serves beauty.... Just as soon as art begins to take delight in that beauty which is already found, instead of the search for new beauty, an arrestment occurs and art becomes a superfluous estheticism, encompassing man's vision like a wall. The aim of art is the search for beauty, just as the aim of religion is the search for God and truth. And exactly as art stops, so religion stops also as soon as it ceases to search for God and truth, thinking it has found them. This idea is expressed in the percept: "Seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness...." It does not say find, but merely seek!
— P. D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum