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Impulse Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
- Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man…
- The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to…
- Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
- Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really… — William J. Clinton
- A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler
- Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando
- Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
- Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the… — Lewis Gannett
- I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post