Desire Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

— John Wanamaker

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like…

— James Goldsmith

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine…

— Erich Fromm

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body…

— Socrates

Nothing tends to materialize man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labor

— Anonymous

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change…

— Karl Marx

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation,…

— Adam Smith

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that…

— Winston Churchill

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts…

— Richard Steele

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper