#pulse

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #impulse #impulsive #impulsiveness #life

The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. (...) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials 'for the sake of humanity,' and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#instincts #moral-law #love

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#almost #assume #baby #being #certainly

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. ↗

— Max Nordau

#creative #fertilizes #impulse #well

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#average person #darkened #disco #dozens #drive

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#contrary #eccentric #govern #impulses #intervals

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#aiming #blind #direction #get #important

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. ↗

— Sam Tanenhaus

#demand #impulse #death