Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or search:
“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 informationnever flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of goodhe arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep Philosophy,
Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry,
Arts which I loved, for they, my Friend, were thine.”
—Abraham Cowley (16181667)
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