Desire Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much the more…

— Immanuel Kant

“Emotional fear is a hindrance without purpose. Instinctual fear breeds caution and knowledge of one’s surroundings. One would be at a disadvantage without it.”

— Kel Kade

“He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power;…

— Heinrich Heine

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not…

— Thomas Hobbes

“The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.”

— Robert Wright

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

— Edward Abbey

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and…

— Aristotle

“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.”

— Johann Fichte

“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“in the fears and follies of man, but on his reason.…”

— Jon Meacham

“Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full…

— Dan Millman