“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.” YearsLastsViewsCommonModernCenturyDiseaseImpulseHistorianRulersLast YearInabilityMalfunctionRichard Ii Author:Barbara Tuchman
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.” MenCultureTermWealthEffortPovertyVirtueGreaterIgnoranceDiseaseDegreesLaborIncreaseInstinctHungerVicesImpulseLeisureWealth And Poverty Book:War and Peace Source: War and Peace
“The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.” IndividualCasesSucceedDiseaseSurvivalUniqueMiracleStrongerImpulseStrongestWill To Survive Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic
“Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.” KindEyeSeriousDiseaseGardenDrinkingGet UpImpulseWeedGardeningGardenerIrresistibleVisitingCocktails Author:Lewis Gannett