Quotes About Impulse

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

I guess I don't think sometimes, and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes that's a bad thing.

El orden es una especie de impulso de repetición que establece de una vez para todas cuándo, dónde y cómo debe efectuarse determinado acto, de modo que en toda situación correspondiente nos ahorraremos las dudas e indecisiones

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people—"base.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss".

An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself.

Accordingly, I do not believe that an impulse to knowledge is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument.

what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.

thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! [...] out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. And all I can think is I must have decided it was a good idea to go to France, and got my passport, and got on a plane.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.