Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
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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.
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A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
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The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
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Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
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In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
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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.
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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.
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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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To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
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I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
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Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
