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Desire Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I…
- Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this…
- If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,…
- Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,…
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having…
- All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
- There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
- Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
- Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
- We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and…
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
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda