Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“All this is, of course, the old philosophic distinction between reason and passion; but Spinoza adds vitally to Socrates and the Stoics.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“The real desire [of feminism] is to break away from rationalism, androcentrisim and all forms of philosophy and practices that discriminate against… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Every experience lately felt like an experiment of the body, of its power and limitations. Such experiments created a desire for something… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“We all know water promises weight to carry our grief, pulsing, further and still further away. The cave is something else entirely.… — Kelli Allen Copy Share Image
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?” “What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious… — Homer Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
“Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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