Appearance Quote by Tobias Wolff

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

— Eleanor Catton

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

— Jane Smiley

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

— Jim James

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

— Aristotle

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in…

— Jeanette Winterson

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which…

— Michel Houellebecq

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.

— Gregg Olsen

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before…

— Andy Andrews

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

— Bertrand Russell