“Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.” NeedsChildrenDesireParentResultsHumilityAnd LoveInclinationWithout LoveChildren And Love Book:Healology Source: Healology
“Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.” MenWantNeedsHumansWellsReasonHandsDesireIndividualEnergyGivenEnjoyRightsConditionsLimitsAbsolutesIndividualityInclinationHuman Hands Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.” MenFirstsWellsMeanDesireCausesMankindDelightPerpetualRestlessInclinationModeratesAcquisitionLive Well Author:Thomas Hobbes
“It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.” WorldMindPersonsDesireSecretMankindIllWitVanityDispositionScandalInclinationConversesIll WillOstentation Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.” WholeDesireCoursesAffectionSubmitInclinationIntervals Book:Moral Philosophy Source: Moral Philosophy
“Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.” PeopleWayDesireActorsGreaterStageProveInclination Author:Alec-Tweedie
“Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.” DesireNaturalLuckFollowingMasteryInclinationGeneticsDeep Desire Book:Mastery Source: Mastery