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"You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."
"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."
"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."
"That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision."
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