Desire Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

— Alphonsus Liguori

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

— Philip Neri

“He who acquires knowledge and acts up to it and teaches it to the people is noble to the angels of heaven and earth.…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he…

— Johannes Tauler

“Someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them is a person whose feelings, thoughts, and actions are congruent with one…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn…

— Plato

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for…

— Plato

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson