With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell 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
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
To me, Sri Chinmoy is a source of higher power and an uplifting example of right attitude. He understands the human impulse… — Frank Zane Copy Share Image
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
