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All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

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 All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

Feb 21,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #hope #Fear #language #images #actions #expression #desires #doubt #Frederick Douglass #Lecture on Pictures

It is not better for human beings to get all they want.

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 It is not better for human beings to get all they want.

Dec 31,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #good #humanity #fragments #desires #Heraclitus

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

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 Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Sep 17,2023

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#quotes #desires #conflict #opposition #rebellion #Bataille #Georges Bataille #The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

Were all embodied beings to have their wish fulfilled, no one would suffer. No one wishes for suffering.

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 Were all embodied beings to have their wish fulfilled, no one would suffer. No one wishes for suffering.

Feb 26,2023

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#quotes #life #philosophy #suffering #experience #desires #wishes #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra

Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

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 Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

Dec 29,2022

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#love #quotes #philosophy #hate #society #ego #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #desires

Fixations spawn thoughts that provoke compulsive acts — emptiness stops fixations. … When things dissolve, there’s nothing

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 Fixations spawn thoughts that provoke compulsive acts — emptiness stops fixations. … When things dissolve, there’s nothing

Nov 16,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #peace #emptiness #actions #desires #Nāgārjuna #Mūlamadhyamakakārikā #liberation #clinging

Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

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 Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

Oct 31,2022

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#goals #quotes #Feelings #philosophy #creativity #humanity #notes from underground #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #desires #passions

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

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 The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Nov 17,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #humanity #desires #R. G. Collingwood #Autobiography #hubris

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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 If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Apr 12,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #self #awareness #humanity #needs #Simone Weil #desires #Gravity and Grace

He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole

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 He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole

Apr 02,2021

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#quotes #life #philosophy #suffering #politics #ethics #needs #limits #desires #Epicurus #Principal Doctrines #labor #conflict

The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take pleasure in beauty,

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 The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take pleasure in beauty,

Mar 16,2021

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#love #quotes #philosophy #beauty #aesthetics #plato #ethics #desires #reasoning #pleasure #Phaedrus

Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.

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 Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.

Mar 08,2021

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#love #quotes #Feelings #philosophy #suffering #knowledge #emotions #Martha Nussbaum #desires #Love’s Knowledge

Only the body and its desires cause war, civil discord and battles, for all wars are due to the desire to acquire wealth, and

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 Only the body and its desires cause war, civil discord and battles, for all wars are due to the desire to acquire wealth, and

Feb 16,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #war #plato #body #wealth #desires #Phaedo #conflict

It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t

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 It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t

Jan 15,2021

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#goals #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #suffering #misery #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #desires #stoicism #judgments

At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather:

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 At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather:

Jan 09,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #humanity #Herbert Marcuse #needs #desires #An Essay on Liberation #exploitation #oppression

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

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 Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

Dec 04,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #thought #solitude #reflection #desires #Mary Wollstonecraft #A Vindication of the Rights of Woman #passions

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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 The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Nov 14,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #greed #thinking #reason #rationality #desires #Mary Wollstonecraft #appetites #envy

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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 The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Nov 12,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #learning #John Dewey #education #desires #Experience and Education #attitudes

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly

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 We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly

Nov 10,2020

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#quotes #life #Happiness #philosophy #knowledge #ignorance #voltaire #Notebooks #desires