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“Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.”

Mind Desire Known Mankind Objects Species Rate Various Pursue Variety Shade Objects Of Desire

Author:William Gifford

“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.”

People Reality Desire Left Objects Lust Repent Distracted Phantoms Objects Of Desire

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.”

Use Home Desire Economy Objects Drink Taste Office Marketing Primaries Consumers Expensive Criteria Appliances Usability Objects Of Desire Soft Drinks

Author:Donald A. Norman

“The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.”

Desire Objects Criminals Inconsistent Ignoble Objects Of Desire

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.”

Soul Body Desire Possibility Objects Fame Faculty Organs Adapted Relish Fruition Objects Of Desire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.”

May Desire Passion Sea Objects Lovers Certainty Absent Fickle Dubious Objects Of Desire

Author:Tobsha Learner

“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.”

Should I Can Reason Desire Literature Pleasure Virtue Effects Objects Morality Function Intention Lust Etc No Reason Heroism Objects Of Desire

Author:Lionel

“A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.”

Love Desire Hate Cases Objects Capacity Disappointment Cures Objects Of Desire

Author:Norm MacDonald

“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”

Thinking Said Desire Objects Imaginary Agony Objects Of Desire

Author:T. S. Eliot

“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.”

Source: The Pocket Rumi