#inclinations

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

#elevates #enters #fills #inclinations #into

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ↗

— Robert Greene

#inclinations #societal-contribution #nature

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#adult #allowed #boy #cringe #develop

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #education #figure #inclinations #made

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#atmosphere #cast #causes #constitution #free