Aristotle Quotes, Desire Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

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

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We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

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

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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