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Desire Quotes by Plato
- The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at…
- Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
- Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that…
- It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part,…
- Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in…
- Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the…
- By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him…
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
- Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
- Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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