Converses Quote by Joseph Addison

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in…

— Albert Einstein

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

— Eric Hoffer

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance…

— Marcus Bach

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through…

— Henri Bergson

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the…

— Alexis Carrel

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment.…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must…

— Orison S. Marden

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

— Joe Rogan

Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like…

— Terryl L. Givens

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook