Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Mind Quotes, Desire Quotes

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

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Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

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