I have a suicide impulse.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

— Karl A. Menninger

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony…

— Neil Gaiman

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a…

— Otto Weininger

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

— James Russell Lowell

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

— Aldous Huxley

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils.…

— Anonymous

“Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts…

— Rutherford B. Hayes