Best nature & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”

Desire Nature Property Train Equality Noble Reform Nobility Reformation

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.”

Desire Nature Poor Grace Mines Forests Foxes Lilies Splendor Vines

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.”

Feels Desire Nature Fashion Changed

Author:Mason Cooley

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

Source: The Karamazov Brothers

“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”

Men Remember Desire Heaven Nature Infinite Fallen

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”

Desire Literature Nature Limits Trifles

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.”

Mean Death Desire Nature Environment Essentials Response Adaptation Adaptability

Author:John Dewey

“Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.”

Desire Nature Teach Fire Teacher Teaching Sparks

Author:Robert Burns

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Life Home Might Lasts Desire Culture House Strong Nature Study Masters Garden Simplicity Moderates Convenience Covetousness

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley

“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”

Law Desire Wish Nature Fate Travel Garden Harmony Intimate Infusion

Author:Claude Monet

“There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.”

Life Inspirational Feels Desire Nature Creatures Constitution Gratification Capricious Instant Gratification

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes. Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.”

Needs Firsts Mean Law Desire Nature

Author:Robert Collier

“Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.”

Reason Desire Nature Animal

Author:Rumi

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