George Henry Lewes Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

  George Henry Lewes

  Age, Desire, Doctrine

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge”, p.2

• I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

  George Henry Lewes

  Jealous, Desire, Motive

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.153, London, Knight

• To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Writing, Desire, Done

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.89, London, Knight

• It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Believe, Men

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.429

• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Sympathy, Men, Brave

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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