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• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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  • 2 The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge 13
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • did there arise the desire to read also his earlier work, upon which
  • which will be strong enough to stand up to the overwhelming desire to
  • desire but less than overt action. It is less obvious when dealing
  • doubt that his use of wollen implies a definite element of desire
  • it becomes the faculty of spiritual desire or craving (geistige
  • what I want.” In other words, “I can carry out any desires for
  • action that I may have, but I cannot choose how these desires come
  • power of the will is in fact desire, and that desire can be transformed
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • the knowledge thus acquired, he may then, as desire or
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • That everyone is at liberty to desire or not to desire, which is the
  • conscious of their desires, but ignorant of the causes by which they
  • are determined. Thus the child believes that he desires milk of
  • his own free will, the angry boy regards his desire for vengeance
  • as free, and the coward his desire for flight. Again, the drunken
  • all can temper his desires, and that, moved by conflicting passions,
  • himself free because there are some things which he desires
  • less strongly, and some desires which he can easily inhibit
  • that the child is unfree when he desires milk, or the drunken
  • the child when it desires milk: It is no doubt true that it is
  • arouses a desire in him, then he appears as determined from
  • animal desires, our motives are always permeated by thoughts.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
  • Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
  • upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • of this dream world and who must therefore gradually lose all desire to
  • kindle as earnest desire for knowledge, in so far as it was a means
  • the fundamental desire for knowledge in us. Beings without thinking do not
  • have this desire. When they are faced with other things, no questions arise
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • sexual desire or because he is bound by the fetters of conventional morality,
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • and, “To be at liberty to desire or not to desire is the real
  • unfree; for a greater freedom can neither be desired nor
  • certainly possible to desire a greater freedom, and this for
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • enjoyment gives rise to a desire for its repetition or for a fresh pleasure,
  • my pleasure has given birth to pain. I can speak of pain only when desire
  • I have had creates in me the desire for the experience of greater or more
  • refined pleasure, I cannot speak of this desire as a pain created by the
  • intensely desired goal? This joy is the companion of all labour that gives
  • recollection of past enjoyment at a time of unfulfilled desire will just as
  • those who say of every unsatisfied desire that not only is the joy of
  • The fulfillment of a desire brings pleasure and its nonfulfillment brings
  • of a desire, and pain its non-satisfaction. Both pleasure and pain can be
  • experienced without being the consequence of desire. Illness is pain not
  • preceded by desire. If anyone were to maintain that illness is unsatisfied
  • desire for health, he would be making the mistake of regarding the
  • positive desire. When someone receives a legacy from a rich relative of
  • without any preceding desire.
  • pleasure at the fulfillment of a desire, and the pleasure which comes to us
  • try to do this in two ways. Firstly, by showing that our desire
  • selfishness desires the grapes of pleasure, finds them sour because he
  • Now life manifests itself through a number of instinctive desires (needs).
  • instinct for food a further need is added. For man does not merely desire to
  • however, is not in the least reduced. Wherever a desire is satisfied, the
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