Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Desire Quotes

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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

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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Hands Quotes , Desire Quotes

When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

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