
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
p, 125
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.
Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy Of Religion (1951), Ch. 24 : The Great Yearning; The Yearning for Spiritual Living<!-- p. 259 -->
Context: He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor, his life for love, knowing that contentment is the shadow not the light. The great yearning that sweeps eternity is a yearning to praise, a yearning to serve. And when the waves of that yearning swell in our souls all the barriers are pushed aside: the crust of callousness, the hysteria of vanity, the orgies of arrogance. For it is not the I that trembles alone, it is not a stir out of my soul but an eternal flutter that sweeps us all. No code, no law, even the law of God, can set a pattern for all of our living. It is not enough to have the right ideas. For the will, not reason, has the executive power in the realm of living. The will is stronger than reason and does not blindly submit to the dictates of rational principles. Reason may force the mind to accept intellectually its conclusions. Yet what is the power that will make me love to do what I ought to do?
“Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.”
Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), P. 203.
"Hunting a Hare"; translated by W.H. Auden, p. 13.
Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace