desire

Philosopher quotes

Swami Sivananda quote: “Desire nothing. Give up all desires and…”

See more ⋙

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer quote: “An argument fatal to the communist theory…”

See more ⋙

Love quotes

Swami Sivananda quote: “A desire arises in the mind. It…”

See more ⋙

Leader quotes

William E. Gladstone quote: “There should be a sympathy with freedom…”

See more ⋙

Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: “The majority of the senior class of…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Tacitus quote: “The desire for safety stands against every…”

See more ⋙

Historian quotes

Will Durant quote: “Knowledge is the eye of desire and…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Thucydides quote: “Few things are brought to a successful…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Tacitus quote: “A desire to resist oppression is implanted…”

See more ⋙

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “It is much easier to suppress a…”

See more ⋙

David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence quote: “In every living thing there is the…”

See more ⋙

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “If you desire many things, many things…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Plato quote: “Human behavior flows from three main sources:…”

See more ⋙

Adam Smith

Adam Smith quote: “Great ambition, the desire of real superiority…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Democritus quote: “Good means not merely not to do…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “The reason can give nothing at all…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “The point of vision and desire are…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

Walt Whitman quote: “Stranger, if you passing meet me and…”

See more ⋙

Love quotes

Robert Frost quote: “Love is an irresistible desire to be…”

See more ⋙

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw quote: “Life contains but two tragedies. One is…”

See more ⋙

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw quote: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You…”

See more ⋙

Parenting quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “If you desire to drain to the…”

See more ⋙

Quotes from writers

Rudyard Kipling quote: “I have struck a city — a…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

William Butler Yeats quote: “I have known more men destroyed by…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

Rumi quote: “Everyone has been made for some particular…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Virgil quote: “Every man makes a god of his…”

See more ⋙

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille quote: “Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed…”

See more ⋙

Ancient wisdom

Sophocles quote: “Always desire to learn something useful…”

See more ⋙

Poet quotes

Samuel Butler quote: “All progress is based upon a universal…”

See more ⋙

Philosopher quotes

Soren Kierkegaard quote: “It belongs to the imperfection of everything…”

See more ⋙