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“It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.”

Eye Desire Interest Attention Painting Senses Mortals Variety Relaxation Decoration Monstrosity

Author:Michelangelo

“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

“It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.”

Needs Desire Opportunity Individual Given Seeing Students Educational Variety Appropriate Involvement

Author:Adam Fletcher

“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”

Men States Political Desire Interest Numbers Greater Spring Harmony Unity Active Variety Occasions Arrangements Collision Transgression Manifold

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.”

Love Desire Born Love Is Pleasure Variety Charm Seduction Inexplicable Promiscuity

Author:Moliere

“To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.”

Kind Truth Desire Certain Numbers Principles Ignorance Proof Variety Just One Phenomenon Falsehood Hypothesis Adapting Scruples Overload

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature