Quotes About Inclination

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.

I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.

For as I may be saved by God above, I never used discretion when in love But ever followed on my appetite, Whether the lad was short, long, black or white. Little I cared, if he was fond of me, How poor he was, or what his rank might be.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

Sur] l'antisémitisme, je n'ai guère envie de chercher des explications, je ressens une forte inclination à m'abandonner à mes affects, et [suis] renforcé dans ma position [peu] scientifique par le fait que les hommes sont (...), en grande part, une misérable canaille.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow.

They want you or they don't

If I followed my natural inclination, I should blow up the world. And it is because I lack the courage to follow it that, out of penitence, I try to stupefy myself with the company of those who have found peace.

Franklin alla fine della sua vita, dopo un decennio di esperienza del governo americano, concludeva: «vi è nell'umanità un'inclinazione naturale per il governo monarchico».

The truth is that, to every genius there is a characteristic weakness, a defect to which it naturally leans, and into which, in those inevitable moments when inspiration flags, it is apt to subside.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.

My favorite receiver of all time? You can't pick a favorite receiver.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

When she went to church, nothing received her, nothing came near her, nothing brought her any message. Something was done, she supposed, that ought to be done—something she had no inclination to dispute, no interest in questioning; a certain good power called God, required from people, in return for the gift of existence, the attention of going to church; therefore she went sometimes.