Vain Desires Quotes

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.