Alan Watts Quotes, Desire Quotes, Want Quotes

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

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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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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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