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“My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.”

Desire Fighting Journey Judging Accomplishment Mma Meant To Be Personal Journey

Author:Cat Zingano

“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.”

War Sometimes States Reason Law Desire Judging Conflict Ambition Bounds Sovereign Grievance

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.”

Knows World Kind Desire Wish Judging Activity Evaluate Expressive

Author:Raymond Geuss

“But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.”

Knows Littles Enough Desire Judging Paradise Neighbour Hints

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.”

Humans Littles Desire Left Wish Moral Judging Degrees Intellectual Tasks Excellence Strive Latter Attributes Invites Shrinks Tribunals Moral Excellence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.”

Ifs Desire Sin Judging

Author:Seneca the Younger