"Why is erasing desire seen as so important?……" — Tibor Fischer
"Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away."
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Tibor Fischer
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28 Quotes by Tibor Fischer
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No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.
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Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.
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Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.
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The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
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Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack…
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Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's…
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I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret…
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Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.
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As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get…
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Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing…
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I never could get a proper job.
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It's what the reader thinks that counts.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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