They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire andor Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.
The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
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.
A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.