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Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.”

Men Long Natural Animal Emotion Struggle Fields Degrees Wounds Dumb Impulse Honour Compassionate Animal Rights Spiders Butchers

Author:John Newton

“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”

Humans Felt Human Beings Impulse Mature Immature Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:George P. Baker

“Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.”

People Thinking Dark Impulse

Author:Stephen Hopkins

“Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.”

Wells May Hard Whole Might Happens Form Produce Evidence Built Structure Patterns Stuck Impulse Very Strong Interfere Reflexes Endorphins

Author:David Bohm

“Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.”

Way Joy Fighting Christ Seeing Obstacles Aliens Impulse Maintaining Savoring

Author:John Piper

“When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.”

“All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.”

Writing Impulse Writing Life

Author:Paul Auster

“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Moments Novel Curiosity Philosopher Being True Relate Impulse Journalist Urgency

Book:The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

“Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.”

Self States Dream Action Communication Impulse Rising Waking Closest Spontaneous Inner Self

Author:Seth

“I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.”

Giving Art Said Energy Exercise Aim Satisfaction Impulse Curse Labour Worth It

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!”

Circumstances Breaths Slave Impulse

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.”

Knows Feels Should Has Beens Ends Circumstances Breaths Slave Impulse Thrones Could Have Been Misplaced

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.”

Men Humans Feelings Humanity Behinds Existence Taken Optimism Aim Raises Mere Everyday Optimistic Impulse Existentialism Observers Human Existence Romanticism Stature

Author:Colin Wilson

“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.”

Men Desire Universe Impulse Possessed Mystical

Author:Colin Wilson

“The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.”

Reason Higher Activity Goodness Highest Infinite Impulse

Author:Felix Adler

“People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.”

“I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.”

Thinking Actors Impulse

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.”

People Way Giving Trying Littles Made I Can Character Film Behinds Inspire Directors Findings Passionate Impulse Irresponsible

Author:Willem Dafoe

“I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.”

People Thinking Has Beens Shows Five Minutes Clean Glad Eras Impulse Comedian Tonight Affected Really Great Could Have Been Sitcom

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.”

Needs Writing Wells Kind Song Left My Own Struggle Pops Impulse Devices Restlessness Concise Irrepressible

Author:Andrew Bird

“I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.”

Thinking Humans Persons Doe Important Shows Struggle Terrible Impulse Terrible Things Questionable Playing Someone

Author:Dane DeHaan

“I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.”

People Thinking May Situation Cases Dangerous Messages Being True Impulse Generous Bad Things Prey Being A Woman Gongs Dangerous Situations

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.”

Writing Years Ideas My Own Novel Months Impulse Triage

Author:Charles Stross

“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

Three Waiting Simple Half Five Charity Saving Impulse Forty Quarters Sixty Saving Money

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.”

Impulse Strongest Creeds Fanatics Legitimacy Converting Proselytizing

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.”

“The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.”

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.”

Needs Has Beens Light Form Lost Powerful Effort Serious Historical Casts Nostalgia Impulse Inquiry Energizing

Author:T. J. Jackson Lears

“There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.”

“As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.”

Source: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network

“Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

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