“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."” WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action Author:Vaclav Havel
“Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.” MenRomanceDesireValuesPassionWealthAchieveMoralityProveUltimateDepthProsperityCharmContentmentPermissionInner BeautyEnvied Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.” WorldStillsSoulDesireMy OwnWallMoralityDiversityMirrorsFallenAbstractSensationsMetaphysicsCentre Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.” ThinkingMenFormLawDesireMoralityCivilizationWesternObedienceSecularRationalityWestern CivilizationDesire To Live Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung
“I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.” MeanDesireIndustryMoralityEnterpriseSobriety Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.” WantDoeDesireTeachPathMoralityRespectToleranceTraditional Book:Sharing the world Source: Sharing the world
“I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.” ShouldI CanReasonDesireLiteraturePleasureVirtueEffectsObjectsMoralityFunctionIntentionLustEtcNo ReasonHeroismObjects Of Desire Author:Lionel
“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.” DesireTreeMoralityFruitFormerLatterOrangeOrange Trees Author:Philibert Joseph Roux