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“Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.”

Heart May Persons Has Beens Whole Moments Beautiful Law Spirit Fighting Winning Struggle Inspire Victory Morality Battle Goodness Opposites Obedience Impulse Delicious Incline Inner Struggle

Author:Ernest Renan

“If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important”

Ifs Knows Humans Doe Important Soul Facts Faith Powerful Accepting Cold Concern Absolutes My Soul Impulse Human Experience Leaving Me

Author:Carl Jung

“I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.”

Knows Dream Light Situation Mathematics Privilege Flying Impulse Recalls Angle Curves

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”

Men World Soul Moving Spirit Causes Wealth Animal Comfort Response Drawing Pursuit Impulse Awe Casting Pursuit Of Happiness Irresistible Stirring

Book:The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

“Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual”

Individual Voice Secret Mankind Obedience Impulse Contradiction Heroism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.”

Ifs Done Fine Impulse Generous Realistic Imitation Stem Fine Things Forgery

Author:James Fenton

“The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.”

Yoga Aim Chaos Calm Impulse

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.”

Knows Feels Inspiration Energy Acting Higher Integrity Despite Impulse Gates Deep Down

Book:The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

Source: The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

“The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.”

Models Overcoming Impulse Resentment Inherent Imitation Inferiority Imitator

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.”

Instinct Sexuality Impulse Transformed Sadism Masochism

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.”

Inspiration Seems Nations Tradition Impulse Shackles

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?”

People Hours Music Strange Impulse Boredom Truthful

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.”

Civilization Impulse Primal

Book:River of the Sun

Source: River of the Sun

“The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.”

Way Easier Destruction Universal Ancient Impulse Mars Demonstrating

Book:The colloid and the crystal

Source: The colloid and the crystal

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”

Men Giving Humans Soul Character My Soul Primaries Impulse Faculty Sentiments Primitive Human Heart Indivisible Black Cat Soul Life Perverseness

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius

“Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.”

Humans Has Beens Social Causes Millions Return Core Impulse Application Users Expecting Platforms Altruism Honored Doing Things For Others

Author:Joe Greene

“I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.”

Source: Pavannes and Divagations

“Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.”

“The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”

Firsts Ends Common Marriage Comfort Findings Satisfaction Impulse Elsewhere Lacking

Book:Man's World Woman's Place

Source: Man's World Woman's Place

“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?”

Wonder Failing Feet Gold Intelligent Deception Impulse Destructive Idols Clay Cliche Venice

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”

Long Has Beens Different Form Choices Individual Difficult Conditions Disease Long Time Determine Illness Psychological Impulse Neurotic Selected Difficult Questions

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.”

Self Feelings Suffering Hate Interest Duty Cold Madness Impulse Substitutes Prudence Abandonment Propriety Those We Love Detest Circumspection

Author:Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

“Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.”

Faces Common Psychology Theory Spring Extremes Common Sense Impulse Biology Statistics Heroism Illogical Scientific Theory

Author:Christopher McDougall

“There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.”

Wells Humanitarian Impulse Aspire

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.”

“"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.”

Knows Way Humans War Enjoy Natural Secret Behinds Nice Killing Impulse Piano Necks Wire Brutality Very Nice Sadism Nooses

Author:Paul Fussell

“Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.”

Want Film Impulse Resurgence

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.”

Heart Values Goal Our Lives Resources Eternity Worthy Impulse Instant Trusted Everlasting Gratification Turning Points Hoarding Instant Gratification

Author:David Jeremiah

“I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.”

Greater Achieve I Realized Impulse Engines Oxygen Rockets Methane

Author:Elon Musk

“The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in health and disease. When the controlling intelligence is able to transmit mental impulses to all parts of the body, free and unobstructed, we have normal action which is health.”

Philosophy Body Able Action Disease Normal Function Impulse Innate Transmit Chiropractic Parts Of The Body

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.”

Giving Feels Feelings Fall Expression Constant Falling In Love Affair Impulse Love Affair Wellbeing Tranquil Eros Involuntary

Author:François Lelord

“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.”

Men Groups Effects Behavior Conscious Various Determined Impulse Unconscious Spontaneous Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Icarus; or, the Future of Science

Source: Icarus; or, the Future of Science

“Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.”

Age Past Order Creativity Creative Essentials Achievement Originals Institutions Impulse Preserves Rebel Idols

Book:A Faith for Moderns

Source: A Faith for Moderns

“Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces”

“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”

“Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.”

Writing Impulse Get Away

Author:Graham Swift

“When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.”

Sometimes Stories Voice Memoir Impulse

Author:Dave Eggers

“I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.”

Lists Impulse Buyers

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.”

Want Humans Ideas Natural Human Beings Fantasy Drink Comfort Exciting Impulse Substance

Author:Tom Baker

“I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.”

Thinking Writing Political Creativity Messages Down And Sells Storytelling Impulse

Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.”

Ifs I Can War Hate Deals Civilization Impulse Hate You Etiquette Hate Me High Points You Can Hate Me

Author:Stanley Crouch

“Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.”

Doe Two Different Moments Actors Instinct Brilliant Impulse Fortunate Riding

Author:Jeff Daniels

“I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.”

People Kind Certain Known Lovely Impulse Destructive Brutes Bad People

Author:Paula Fox

“Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.”

Ifs Humans Universe Religious Accepting Cold Truth Is Impulse Suspects Indifferent Secular Resisting

Author:Tom Flynn

“So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Doe Stills Shows Film Games Wish Successful Exercise Directors Balls Impulse Composer Futility Ball Games Ballgame

Author:Danny Elfman

“I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.”

Knows Study Scientist Impulse Labs Overweight Smokers Nicotine Impulse Control

Author:David Eagleman

“If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.”

Ifs Parent Impulse

Author:Rupert Everett

“If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.”

Ifs Trying Littles Scene Add Ruins Impulse

Author:Rachel Dratch

“When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.”

Knows Firsts Three Actors Rooms Creative Impulse Pilots Bubbles

Author:Josh Gad

“And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.”

Feels Music Is Release Impulse

Author:Zola Jesus

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