Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Stupidity Quotes, Desire Quotes

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

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There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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