Active Quote by Francis William Newman Download Open image “The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.” — Francis William Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Active Instinct Men Powerful
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with complexities of civilisation, and has been changing steadily ever since. His greatest problem, the problem that has caused most of his agonies and miseries, has been his attempt to compensate for the narrowing of cinsciousness and… — Colin Wilson Copy Share
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does… — Francis William Newman Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of… — Witney Carson Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
