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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.
The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has that quality of being lasting.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
A home that does not have smart home capabilities is not as desirable when selling.
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.
We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.
