| 1540 | Pleasure and pain guide our choices of good and bad [Democritus] |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 2362 | The will is just the last appetite before action [Hobbes] |
| 20305 | Whenever we act, then desire is our very essence [Spinoza] |
| 5489 | Humans have variable dispositions, and also power to change their dispositions [Ellis] |
| 3814 | Preferences can result from deliberation, not just precede it [Searle] |
| 23724 | A pure desire could be criticised if it were based on a false belief [Smith,M] |
| 23723 | In the Humean account, desires are not true/false, or subject to any rational criticism [Smith,M] |
| 23735 | Subjects may be fallible about the desires which explain their actions [Smith,M] |
| 23736 | A person can have a desire without feeling it [Smith,M] |
| 23738 | Humeans (unlike their opponents) say that desires and judgements can separate [Smith,M] |
| 23739 | Goals need desires, and so only desires can motivate us [Smith,M] |
| 23742 | If first- and second-order desires conflict, harmony does not require the second-order to win [Smith,M] |
| 23746 | Objective reasons to act might be the systematic desires of a fully rational person [Smith,M] |
| 20202 | Motives involve desires, but also how the desires connect to our aims [Zagzebski] |
| 20049 | Maybe your emotions arise from you motivations, rather than being their cause [Stout,R] |
| 20046 | For an ascetic a powerful desire for something is a reason not to implement it [Stout,R] |