“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.” HumansHeartLife IsDesireAccountsMeaning Of LifeConsumerismHuman HeartOverconsumptionBank AccountsBusiness LifeDeep Desire Author:Carl Jung
“I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.” IfsLooksMadeStatesDesireTheoryLogicAccountsPressesValuableRememberedContributionLook UpPreparingProbabilityHereafter Author:George Boole
“Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.” MenGivingDesireUnderstandingAttitudeAtheismEconomicConditionsMaterialsCivilizationAccountsImportanceIndependentPositive AtheismPrimariesThings ChangeInterferenceEconomic Systems Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.” LittlesDesireWishSleepSucceedAmbitionAccounts Author:Ovid
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.” ThinkingShouldMindBelieveLooksArtImportantBookSelfMatterMightDesireAttentionProduceReaderDemandArt IsToughAccountsNo Matter WhatMoodOur TimeDependentTemporaryMuseumsImperfectionOur LoveScarceSubservientPositive SelfPositive Self Image Author:Tyler Cowen
“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.” IfsMenMayDesireCrimeFoolAccountsFaultsEndeavorFraudDespiseDreadCunningKnavesInsensibleDuplicity Author:Norm MacDonald