The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.