Desire Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Excess Extravagance Intellect Intelligence
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure,… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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