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Desire Quotes by Albert Einstein
- A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
- To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
- Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
- Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
- It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the…
- The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and…
- Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own…
- It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological…
- ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the…
- ... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
- A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…
- It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding…
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from…
- the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
- We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind…
- The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features…
- "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free…
- Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being…
- Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being…
More Desire Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong