Desire Quote by Juvenal Download Open image “When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?” — Juvenal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Direct Fear Reason
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might. — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
