Desirable Quote by Thomas Aquinas Download Open image “He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.” — Thomas Aquinas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desirable Desire Doe
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. — William Blake Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
“An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since hemust know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says. — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are suppliedmust admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you… — Tim Worstall Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image