Life, xvi
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“Desire is the base of all disharmony in this world.”
The Warrior is Silent
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“It is to moralise the world that we all desire.”
Stanley Baldwin
(1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1923/jul/23/military-expenditure-and-disarmament in the House of Commons (23 July 1923).
1923
Context: ... some of those to-day who are loudest in their protestations of international pacifism are loudest in their protestations that nothing but a class war can save society. No truer word was ever said by a philosopher than was said by Kant, a century ago or more, that we are civilised to the point of wearisomeness, but before we can be moralised we have a long way to go. It is to moralise the world that we all desire.... We have to remember one more thing besides that, that since the War we must not make the mistake of thinking that what may be war weariness is necessarily an excess of innate good will, and we cannot help noting that there has arisen in Europe, in the few years since the peace, a strong local feeling in different places of an extreme nationalism which, unless corrected, may bear in what is not of itself an evil thing the seeds of much future peril for the peace and harmony of Europe.
“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”
Vladimir Nabokov
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Sarada Devi
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[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 217]
“All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.”
Josef Pieper
(1904–1997) German philosopher
Justice http://books.google.com/books?id=XjYbAAAAIAAJ&q=%22All+just+order+in+the+world+is+based+on+this+that+man+give+man+what+is+his+due%22&pg=PA10#v=onepage (1955)
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—power.”
Matthew Boulton
(1728–1809) English industrialist, business partner of James Watt
Speaking to Boswell of his engineering works, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’
