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«So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
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incessantly, painfully, remains, so long, strives, worship
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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«The yogi who diligently strives, perfecting [gradually] through many incarnations, becomes completely free from all sins and reaches the Self-realization.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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diligently, gradually, incarnations, perfecting, reaches, self-realization, strives, the Incarnation, yogi
«Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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afraid, appear, bottom, bottomed, Bottom Up, clarity, considers, crowd, deep, deep water, go deep, obscurities, obscurity, strives, The Bottom, The Crowd, The Water, timid, water
«What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
instincts, obedience, opposition, oppositions, peculiar, strives, supernatural, supernatural being
«We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspires, redeem, strives
«Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information / never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good / he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
arrives, dialectic, flinch, flinching, grasped, independent, pure and simple, sensuous, strives, the help
«Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Sympathy
| Keywords:
constitutes, opposing, strives
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