Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I like performing the martial arts scenes in films to whatever extent they will allow me to, which most of the time… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
“I am grabbed by the scruff of the neck and pitched clean out of the room. It seems that this sudden aversion… — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind,… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river,… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Copy Share Image
![“My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic…” quote by Wilhelm Ostwald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e54/wilhelm-ostwald-28861_allies_my-only-supporter-and-comrade-in-arms-wa_142681.jpg)
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