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- Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep…
- The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
- Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
- Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
- Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
- If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.
- Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may…
- A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
- A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
- Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of…
- Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.
- The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
- I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love…
- Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into…
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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