A collection of quotes on the topic of DESIRE from the Words and Thoughts Project. Famous people talk about desire. #quotes
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794), also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, drama, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government.
Socrates (?-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily, Italy; he is known within the tradition as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art.
Laozi (571 BC), also known as Lao Tzu, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as “the Old Master”.
John Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was central to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. In Athens, Plato founded the Academy, a philosophical school where he taught the philosophical doctrines that would later became known as Platonism.
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