desire Quotes

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Human beings are curious by nature.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain... ...

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

All humans naturally want to know things.