“If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.” IfsKnowsDesireArtistUniverseDiscoveryPersistRestlessVoyagesVoyages Of Discovery Book:To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society Source: To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society
“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
“No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?” DesireArmsUncertaintyAnxiousRestlessImpatienceUnsafe Author:Francois Fenelon