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Desire Quotes by Simone Weil
- All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and…
- The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
- If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
- No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
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
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling