The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed..
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever..
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch..
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desi….
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.].
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole..
I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it..
Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium….
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune..
If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed..
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires..
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us..
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from g….
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain..
Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying stren….
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is depend….
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so….
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no de….
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something..
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those ….
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to….