Impulses Quotes
287 quotes by 253 authors
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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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
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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
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
— Joseph Joubert
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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
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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
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Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
— Bertrand Russell
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Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
— George Santayana
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
— Ellen Willis
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The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
— Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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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
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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
— Immanuel Kant
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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
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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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