Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Johann G. Hamann

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Giacomo Casanova

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert Lawrence

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
Barry Commoner

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
George C. Williams

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Florynce R. Kennedy

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Frank Auerbach

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
Edward Kennedy

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha