Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building. — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
“When you wanna do something and that little impulse goes off in your brain and says "Ooh, don’t do it!", you gotta… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. Ive still got the scars on my fists… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts… — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll… — Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann Copy Share Image
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need… — Agnes Sanford Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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