Impulses Quotes

287 Impulses quotes by 240 unique authors

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess. — John Steinbeck
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the… — Megan Whalen Turner
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has… — Thomas Merton
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or… — Jerzy Kosinski
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,… — C.S. Lewis
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while… — Thornton Wilder
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the… — Elizabeth Kostova
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires… — Bertrand Russell
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own… — John Stuart Mill
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we… — Christopher McDougall
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses,… — Henry Miller

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