„As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.“
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
„It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.“
Henri Cartier-Bresson4
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„The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.“
— Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist 1862 - 1949
Joyzelle, Act i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.“
— Marcel Proust French novelist, critic, and essayist 1871 - 1922
Ch. IV: "Seascape, with a Frieze of Girls"
„We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own.“
— Ivar Ekeland French mathematician 1944
Chapter 1, Keeping The Beat, p. 6.
„We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
Context: For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints. We say, "Tell me all about it — what lies beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?" and we are satisfied with their descriptions, which means that we live on words and our life is shallow and empty. We are secondhand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.
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„No wonder Muddlers initially think that becoming a vegetarian is like taking a vow of culinary abstinence mixed with voluntary poverty.
Of course, in time Muddlers discover that there is an incredibly delicious, colorful, and nutritious animal-free cuisine out there to be discovered, a menu of possibilities that includes foods from every nation and ethnicity in the world. It is the great new food we gain, not the customary old food we lose, that is the real surprise, something all of us have to discover for ourselves.“
— Tom Regan American philosopher 1938
Ch. 6
„We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Context: But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
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„Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.“
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
Principles of Mathematics (1903), p. 451
„We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.“
— Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
„If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.“
— Edward R. Murrow Television journalist 1908 - 1965
„Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.“
— Omar Khayyám Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048 - 1131