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Desires Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
- You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from…
- Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
- The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
- Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
- Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
- Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
- Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely…
- It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires…
- A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
More Desires Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler