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“The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.”

Lovers Consequence Useless Impulse Thinker Lovers Love

Author:William James

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot”

Thinking Want Giving Doe War Body Brain Our Lives Consequence Impulse Giving Directions

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.”

Ifs Home Action Grows Growing Up Consequence Strategy Impulse Predictable

Author:David Brooks

“To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.”

Firsts Easy Consequence Blind Perseverance Impulse Persevere Sanctity Inertia

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Seems Age Desire Passion Youth Habit Consequence Stronger Violent Impulse Ardent Shattering

Book:The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Source: The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

“I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.”

Done Action Causes Secret Consequence Harder Temptation Impulse Who We Are Our Actions Admitting

Book:Intertwined

Source: Intertwined

“That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.”

Enough Desire Wish Regret Consequence Increase Longing Impulse Speakers Defiance Uncontrollable Mortification Deep Regret

Book:The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

“I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.”