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Desire Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
- It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
- Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
- Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in…
- To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
- The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
- It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires…
- Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy…
- The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
- Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- 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 human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine