“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.” DesireSecretParticularPrideDirectOneselfConvictionAppreciationVanityParamount Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.” IfsWantFirstsHumansHas BeensWarRealDoneFeelingsPoliticalDesireTurnsNationsCausesOpinionEconomicPrejudiceConvictionObstaclesPsychologicalRulersHuman Will Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.” ImportantIdeasTruthJoyDesireSacrificeTruth IsConvictionIrresistibleGladness Author:Richard Salter Storrs
“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.” NeedsDesireSocialCitizensCapitalismConvictionIgnorantAlternativesRenunciationGood CitizenUnforgivableAnti Social Author:Ivan Illich
“I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.” StillsRememberDesireInterestAttentionFiveConvictionSalesmanship Author:Annette Bening
“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.” FeelsFirstsMadeDesireReadingHeavenJudgmentConvictionRevelationsAffectedImitationTrumpets Author:Ellen Glasgow
“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.” WantMindRealityLawDesireForceCan DoRealizingVisionCreativeExpressionAmbitionConvictionAccomplishImpressionPsychologicalProportionResolutionIntensityImpressSubconsciousSubjectiveVowRegisterVigorSubconscious Mind Author:Orison S. Marden
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.” ArtFormDesireChurchReligiousViewsCreativeSacrificeBloodRevolutionCrossesInstrumentsConvictionBelieverAcceptedSymbolsDefinedTortureWorks Of ArtRitualPeculiarSermonsMonumentDenominationsInscriptionsBlood Sacrifice Author:George Bernard Shaw