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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

Aldous Huxley
Desirable
Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, All Things, Desirable

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

Thomas Aquinas
Desire, Doe, Desirable

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Seneca the Younger
People, Poor, Desirable

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

Phillip Lopate
Discrimination, Desirable
Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

God is triune, and it is as triune that he is so good and desirable.

Michael Reeves
Desirable

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

John Steinbeck
Used, Desirable
John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.125, Penguin

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

John Major
Brave, Liberty, Desirable
John Major (1821). “An Introduction to Latin Syntax ...: To which is Subjoined An Epitome of Ancient History ... to which is Added a Proper Collection of Historical and Chronological Questions”, p.50

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

John Dewey
Weed, Aim, Undesirable
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Desire, Morality, Desirable
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

Frank Zappa
People, Lifestyle, Desirable
Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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