Richard Dawkins Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

• Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

  Richard Dawkins

  Psychology, Desire, Belief

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Giving, Desire

  Source: inters.org

• Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mistake, Thinking, Talking

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

• An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Couple, Independent

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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