Immanuel Kant Quotes
The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.Immanuel Kant
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine -
There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich -
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx -
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Panayiotis Zavos
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil -
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
Nate Berkus -
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields -
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Lady Gaga
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
Barry Sanders -
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West -
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Camille Paglia -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon -
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
Sai Baba
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
Patrick Chan -
She brightened. 'Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me.'
Mary Gaitskill -
For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we desire to desire - will always be like being told, when you desperately want there to be a God, that yes, God exists, as God is simply the good within people.
Nomy Arpaly -
Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
William Cowper -
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman -
The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.
Immanuel Kant