“The evolutionary urge drives man to seek for intenser forms of fulfillment, since his basic urge is for more life, more consciousness, and this contentment has an air of stagnation that the healthy mind rejects.”
This recognition lies at the centre of my own 'outsider theory': that there are human beings to whom comfort means nothing, but whose happiness consists in following an obscure inner-drive, an 'appetite for reality'.
Source: Tree By Tolkien (1974), p. 32
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“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Source: NOS4A2
“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Davidson. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, (2001) p. 208, as cited in: Dermot Moran (ed). The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy, (2008), p. 681
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 2, Man and Culture, p. 55
“For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
near them, waiting.”
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“Ah, mighty Queen! you urge me to disclose,
And feel, once more, unutterable woes.”
Book II, line 3
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)