Desire Quotes by Aristotle

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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All men by nature desire to know.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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All men desire by nature to know.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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“Man is his desire.”

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts…

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable…

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing…

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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of…

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Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority,…

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it…

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart…

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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued…

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire…

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem…

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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they…

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the…

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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in…

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired…

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence…

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