Desire Quote by Mark Kingwell Download Open image “Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.” — Mark Kingwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Transparent
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us? — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some… — Mark Kingwell 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