All ARISTOTLE Quotes about “Desire”

“Wonder implies the desire to learn.”
“Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”
“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.”
“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.”
“The law is reason unaffected by desire.”
“.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.”
“It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.”
“Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.”
“Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.”
“All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.”
“Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.”
“If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.”
“All men desire by nature to know.”
“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.”
“Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.”
“[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it”

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