All things Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

— Mason Cooley

Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the…

— Meister Eckhart

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

— Anonymous

Desire is the very essence of man

— Baruch Spinoza

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel…

— Robert Fulghum

“Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification…

— Baruch Spinoza

Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own…

— Rajneesh

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

— Tara Brach

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence…

— Albert Camus