Desire
The movement of the soul toward something wanted as good or pleasant, from appetite to longing for God.
Works to read
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, 1924
- The Symposium by Plato, c. 385 BCE · Great Books
- On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius, c. 55 BCE · Great Books
- Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1380s · Great Books
- Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, 1846 · Great Books
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, 1922 · Great Books
- Homilies on the Gospel of John by Augustine of Hippo, c. 406-420 CE
- Sermons on the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1135-1153
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, c. 1595
- Sonnets by William Shakespeare, 1609
- The Rover by Aphra Behn, 1677
- Louise de la Vallière by Alexandre Dumas, 1849
Passages
From the texts
This desire of change, is like the breach of the first of Gods Commandements: For there God says, Non Habebis Deos Alienos; Thou shalt not have the Gods of other Nations; and in another place concerning Kings, that they are Gods.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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