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Desire
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne
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Desire
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Desire is the essence of a man.”
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics
Desire
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
Gaston Bachelard
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La Psychanalyse du feu
Desire
This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”
Baruch Spinoza
Desire
freedom
ignorance
It is desire that creates the desirable, it is the project that poses the end.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Desire
project
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
André Breton
art
Desire
science
A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Desire
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
Bertrand Russell
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