Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dream….
All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. Th….
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment..
I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what ….
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire..
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy..
Desire is an attempt to feel the void..
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body..
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness..
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires..
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if i….
Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused..
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished re….
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire..
If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other pe….
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be..
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought..
Life is short. But desire, desire is long..
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own hap….
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead t….
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body..