"Harvey sought for Truth in Truth's own book, / The Creatures which by God Himself was writ". In Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins does a wonderful job in arguing against Keats that far from destroying beauty, science reveals it.
A powerful meditation on death and identity, it tackles Unamuno's self-proclaimed aim: "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".
In a word, "the spectator is not obliged to seek for truth in a painting; but truth, by its effect, must call to the spectator, and force his attention" (AT, 310).
According to Russian psychologist Dmitry Leontev, punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union was based on the assumption that only a madman can go against public dogma and seek for truth and justice.
We are only seeking for the truth to come out… it's about correcting the wrongs of the justice system because it's reflecting on so many more cases that happen".
As would be expected of any American university leader, President Faust has delivered many eloquent and high-minded speeches advocating the standard academic values of open inquiry, the seeking of truth for its own sake, and the pursuit of personally-fulfilling careers that benefit the broader society and are about more than making money.
READ MORE: Seeking Truth, Speaking Truth, Practicing Truth.
He was 89 but still insatiably seeking for an ultimate truth in art as he had written 15 years earlier: From the age of five I have had a mania for sketching the forms of things.
The Sophists pretended neither to transmit nor to seek for the truth concerning man or existence; they offered simply an art of success in political life, which meant, above all, being able on every occasion to make one's point of view prevail.
"Science seeks for the truth but will never get it – but this serves us well as human beings because it boosts our imagination," he explains, "We need that data to build on, and fill in the rest".
Refusing the human instinct to seek for the truth is not a strategy for success; rather it reflects a loss of soul that adds to the growing sense of cynicism and nihilism that diminish life.
