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“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”

Source: Killosophy

“Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.”

Looks Desire Vision Conditions Ego Relation Add Competition Glasses Vanity Distortion Corresponding Cloudy

Book:The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957

Source: The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957

“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”

Men Desire Lost Natural Emotion Concern Relation Absolutes Contact Exalted

Author:Barnett Newman

“All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?”

Whole Form Desire Individual Community Responsibility Essentials Benefits Labor Relation Slavery Slave Socialism Oppression Compelled Taxation Coercion Essential Questions

Author:Herbert Spencer

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.”

Mind Has Beens Might Past Desire Energy Wish Difficult Worry Alive Amount Ego Happenings Relation Frustrated Idle Frozen Might Have Been Difficult Things When Things Go Wrong

Author:Meher Baba

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.”

Thinking Should Reason Law Desire Simple Events Illusion Relation Repression Repressed

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.”

Needs Mind Littles Age Desire Values Bears Six Capacity Relation

Author:Marya Mannes

“Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.”

Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”