Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what they want, or because they change their wants almost every day. Know what you want and continue to want it. You will get it if you combine desire with faith. The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we have to confront is that that impulse is so easily transmuted into something corrosive and corrupt in how it's actually put into practice. That's the danger. It's not that the impulse is wrong or unjust or not totally righteous. It's that the ways in which the system that operates, the system that we've constructed tends to not deliver the promise of equity we might want, when we look to the system to provide it.

There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the government has to sort of do something or the Federal Reserve, the Fed, or the Central Bank, or whatever, it has to intervene. It has to create enough investment for the economy not to suffer from a fall in aggregate demand. So, if you don't have a balance within the market system itself, then you need an external balance and that's what I think Keynes believed.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

When a young male MP wears jeans and t-shirt no one objects, but they have a problem if a woman does the same.

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.