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«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance,
Habit
| Keywords:
Actions, causes, Cause of action, chance, compulsions, desire, habit, human action, passion, reason, seven, sevens, these
«Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Custom
| Keywords:
at one time, conceivable, condemned, furnished, human action, justified, one time
«Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.»
«Change doesn't come from the sky. It comes from human action.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
human action
«A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
genuinely, human action, sighted, temporalities, temporality
«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
| Keywords:
human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance
| Keywords:
Cause of action, compulsion, compulsions, human action, seven
«Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
action, beings, find, human, human action, human beings, make it, must, must have
«Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
frame, human action, instinctive, tendencies
«He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain»
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