Quotes with impulses

  • There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
  • That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

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  • Albert Einstein All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Eric Hoffer Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Caroline Knapp Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Benjamin The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Walker The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Albert Einstein We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bill Clinton Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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