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Impulse Quotes by William James
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
- The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
- The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly…
More Impulse Quotes
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
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- 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
- Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the… — Lewis Gannett
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin