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Desire Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Desire is the essence of a man.
- Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
- Desire is the very essence of man
- I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
- All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
- Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more…
- Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
- Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
- Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
- everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve…
- If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question…
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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