Plato Quotes

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Music
  • Art
  • Condition

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Inspiration
  • Behavior
  • Desires

• What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Condition
  • Aspect
  • Depravity

• There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Learn

• The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Long
  • Nature

• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Jesus
  • Desires

• The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desires
  • Acts
  • Subconscious

• Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Wishes
  • Desires
  • Persistence

• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Place
  • Films
  • Condition

• I wouldn't ask him to go on the trip. We want him to stay behind, work out and get an opportunity to condition himself. It makes no sense for him to go along on the trip and stay in the hotel while we play.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Condition

• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Time
  • World
  • Morning

• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

  

  James Hutton
  • Science
  • Desires
  • Matters

• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • Desires
  • Achieved

• No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Change
  • Condition
  • Step Twice

• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Imagine
  • Slaves

• Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

  

  Judy Parfitt
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Condition

• As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.

  

  H. Ned Seelye
  • Change
  • Journey
  • Develop

• The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Interest

• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  

  George Foreman
  • Littles
  • Opponents
  • Companion

• Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

  

  Plato
  • Desires
  • Condition
  • Slight