Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
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