Quotes by Desire No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas hungry bored desire In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'. Alexandre Kojeve desire men moving The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation. Alexis de Tocqueville ambitious ambition desire Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. Alfie Kohn educational strong desire To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends. Alfie Kohn ends desire mean I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic. Alfred Brendel fantastic desire needs My will to live completely overcame my desire to win Alfred Hajos olympics winning desire And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Alfred Lord Tennyson stars poetry desire Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. Alfred North Whitehead expression desire feelings Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. Alfred North Whitehead records stones desire There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly. Alfred Tarski doubt desire thinking I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. Alfred the Great remembrance desire men The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. Algernon Charles Swinburne outrun delight desire You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you. Ali ibn Abi Talib hate done desire To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic fighting desire The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. Ali ibn Abi Talib mind desire When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. Ali ibn Abi Talib instinct perfection desire One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. Ali ibn Abi Talib risk desire running Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end. Alice Hegan Rice next desire littles Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair. Alice Hegan Rice desire friendship way «23456789101112»