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“Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.”

Ifs Soul Country Mother Bird Instinct Horizon Passages Sensible Mother Country Beyond The Horizon

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

Soul Moving Grows Space Childhood Weakness Tradition Shame Instinct Terror Success And Failure Stale Hysterical

Book:Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

Source: Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

“Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities”

Men Mind Soul Ends Spiritual Purpose Passion Effort Existence Quality Comfort Tests Instinct Gratification Acquisition

Author:David O. McKay

“Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.”

Made Soul Laughing Cry Instinct Creator Touched Imitator Chaplin Mime

Author:Marcel Marceau

“To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.”

Soul Character Facts Passion Known Opinion Horror Instinct Defined Fixed

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.”

Men Kind Made Soul Reason Grows Break Duty Judgment Constitution Instinct Occasions Uniforms Discretion Break Out Forsake Offending All Occasions

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.”

Men Two Soul Reason Body Passion Language Voice Too Much Conscience Instinct Guides Deceiving Astonishing

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.”

May Soul Religious Conscience Instinct Faculty Peculiar

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance