“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”
Source: Passion and Purity
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“If someone grabs you, you will only try to grab back if you are scared.”
Wisdom Quotes
“Dealing with the Liberals, it was like trying to grab quicksilver.”
“Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.”
Fragment No. 1; Variant: We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Quote from Bazille's letter to his mother, c. 1864; as quoted in Frédéric Bazille and early Impressionism, Marandel, Daulte et al. p. 166
1861 - 1865
“God is everywhere, and you can find him everywhere.”
Mohammad Habib and Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India, New Delhi, 1970, Volume V, The Sultanat, First Reprint, 1982. Quoted from Sita Ram Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583 Chapter 10.
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 2.
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical