Desire Quotes - Page 24

• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

  Henry George

  Men, Law, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How slow
  This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
  Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
  Long withering out a young man's revenue.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Long

  William Shakespeare (2017). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Doe, Needs, Kind

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

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• Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.

  Sonia

  Needs, Absolute Certainty, Turns

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• Boredom is desire seeking desire.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Seeking

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

  Tony Robbins

  Life Is

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• The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mentor, Guru, Motivated

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• When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.45, Princeton University Press

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• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

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• I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.

  Osamu Dazai

  Liars, Philosophy, People

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Tests

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Goal, World, Bucks

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• I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Longing, Longing For Death, Loses

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• There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

  Karen Essex

  World, Entanglement, Agree

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• The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

  Michael Meade

  Imagination, Soul, Touched

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Hitting

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• Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

  LeCrae

  Prayer, Praying, Burden

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• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Wheels, Environment

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• A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Curiosity

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• [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

  Michel Foucault

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.81, Vintage

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• If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

  Abraham Lincoln

  Firsts, Slave, Should

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

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• The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Jobs, People, Google

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