[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is….
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as….
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discon….
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poo….
As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer ….
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy..
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a….
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one..
I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothing’….
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher..
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth..
All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others..
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires..
I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them..
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language,….
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to l….
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power o….
When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life..
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close..
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire..