Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Desire Quotes

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

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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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All men desire by nature to know.

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

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

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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

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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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