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«The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.»
«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; about facing the existenti»
Author: Tom Flynn
| Keywords:
about-face, accepting, facing, gloriously, humanist, humanists, impulse, indifferent, religious truth, resisting, secular, suspect
«There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.»
Author: Greta Garbo
(Actress)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
altar, and others, get married, impulse, married person
«The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
adequately, Creative impulse, creative work, directed, Directed By, dominated, fetter, fettered, impulse, in fetters, only if, perform, philosopher, The Philosopher, The Teacher
«The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.»
«There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Happiness,
Impulses
| Keywords:
at the bottom, bottom, impulse, punish, Puritanism, The Bottom
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
«The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.»
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, conversing, Death itself, demonic, epileptic, Epileptics, extinction, impulse, intervals, level of consciousness, making love, meal, mood, On the Level, physical death, physical force, pushing, range, resembles, sensation, sexuality, sudden, sudden death, taboo, taboos, tamed, voluptuous, yearning
«The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
impulse, stagnate, stagnated, stagnates, sympathy, with sympathy
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