Desire Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius Download Open image “By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Inspirational Love Mind Psychology
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
