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Desire Quotes by Francis Bacon
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's…
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
- The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there…
More Desire Quotes
- 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