Sentence examples for quest for self-knowledge from inspiring English sources

It wasn't long ago that the quest for self-knowledge meant analyzing the psyche as opposed to, say, the colon.

The book becomes a patchwork of strands: the Porters, the Romanesque, Petro's quest for self-knowledge, her musings on love, food and death.

But it was the substance of Plato's meditations — the radical nature of the philosopher's quest for self-knowledge — that really grabbed hold of Jolley.

These events would prove to be the beginning of a long quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement that continues to this day.

With a knowing wink at notions of cultural heritage, Rashid Johnson's quest for self-knowledge saw him install a zebra-furred shrink's couch in the South London Gallery three years ago.

McMahon and composer Raymond Scannell have turned her quest for self-knowledge into something bigger, an attempt to ask who we are and what kind of country we want to live in.

Michaux spent his life on a quest for consciousness, self-knowledge and a modicum of inner peace in which art was more the means than the end.

A curious blend of mythology, fable, religion, and astrology, the story emerges as Cornish's quest for identity and self-knowledge, with the angels acting as commentators.

In William Langland's epochal poem Piers Plowman, written between 1360 and 1387, a quest for true, Christian self-knowledge begins with our narrator Will falling asleep in the Malvern hills.

He relies on the split narrative of the two middle-age half-brothers, one an acclaimed scientist and the other, a failed academic, on their miserable quests for happiness and self-knowledge.

Walking home, Mr. Treslove is robbed, an incident that sets him on a quest for self-discovery, wisdom and the knowledge of what it means to be Jewish.