Interest Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Like Prostitute Nobility Nobility Like Prostitute Prostitute Smile Self Self interest Truth Warrior Warrior Nobility
“It's odd," the Warrior of the Light says to himself. "I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun. — Evan Wright Copy Share Image
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“...nobility on earth may be earned by the sword, but nobility of the soul must be sought in stony ways and through hard endeavor.… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A courageous warrior knows that she is powerfully sourced by something much greater than herself and that she can release the judgments of others. — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“the human nature whose strong quality it brings out and reveals. To attribute any nobility to war itself is as much a confusion of… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image