“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsStillsWould BeDesireNextStepsThis WorldHarderPracticalsNext Steps Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.” PeopleWantHomeDesireHard WorkModelsHarderConstantAdvertisingConceptionWork HarderDissatisfiedNew Home Author:Bruce Barton
“My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?” DesireGrowsLove IsFireColdHarderHotIceRejectionLove Is Like Book:Minor poems Source: Minor poems