Impulses Quotes

287 quotes by 253 authors

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That… — William J. Clinton
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.'… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. — George Santayana
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. — Bertrand Russell
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the… — Bill Bradley
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is… — Margaret Mead
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. — Ronald Reagan
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. — James A. Baldwin
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility — Immanuel Kant
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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… — Eric Hoffer

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