Quotes About Desire

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

Il est tellement plus facile de tomber amoureux que de cesser de l'être.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.