Desire Quotes (12)
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
Rémy de Gourmont and Glenn Stephen Burne (ed.), Selected Writings (1966), 170.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained.
In An Apology For the True Christian Divinity (1825), 15.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998, 1999), 286
See also: | Belief (37) | Biology (42) | Evolution (229) | God (121) | History (61) | Human Mind (4) | Passion (9) | Science (444) | Truth (241)
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations, Vol. 3, ed. Archibald Geikie (1899), 16.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Mad Love (1937) translated by Mary Ann Caws (1988), 25.
See also: | Art And Science (17) | Industry (15) | Nothing (11) | Possession (5) | Retain (3) | Will (5)
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
Albert Einstein and Walter Shropshire (ed.), The Joys of Research (1981), 40.
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?
Concerning Man's Origin (1927), viii.
See also: | Men Of Science (68) | Origin Of Man (5) | Riddle (2) | Science And Religion (76) | Solution (44) | Universe (138)
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
The Cosmic Code (1982), 348.
See also: | Avoid (3) | Enemy (5) | Energy (38) | Expression (4) | Humanity (9) | Invisible (3) | Knowledge (330) | Matter (61) | Organization (10) | Realize (2) | Respect (7) | Science (444) | Spirit (9) | Vision (3) | World (45)
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
Quoted in H. E. Hunter, The Divine Proportion (1970), 6; but with no footnote identifying primary source.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), New Writings by William Hazlitt (2nd Ed., 1925), 117.
See also: | Acknowledge (3) | Cause (49) | False (13) | Ignorance (62) | Knowledge (330) | Origin (5) | Science (444)
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 44.
[T]he human desire to escape the flesh, which took one form in asceticism, might take another form in the creation of machines. Thus, the wish to rise above the bestial body manifested itself not only in angels but in mechanical creatures. Certainly, once machines existed, humans clearly attached to them feelings of escape from the flesh.
The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines (1993), 218.
See also: | Angel (3) | Bestial (2) | Body (24) | Creation (46) | Creature (15) | Escape (3) | Feeling (2) | Flesh (4) | Human (37) | Machine (22) | Manifestation (3)
