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«The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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Achievement
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Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, civilizing, harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, impulses, lay in, The Catholic
«To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.»
«The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports»
«The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
| About:
Men
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Creative impulse, impulses, possessive
«We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.»
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Action
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do by, impulses, in general, organized, preservation, ruled, self preservation
«The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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camera, impulses, introduces, optic, optics, psychoanalysis, unconscious
«The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
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impulses, reformative, sadistic
«We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organised that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. All these primary impulses, not easi ly described in words, are the springs of man's actions. All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much aloke in them and in us. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolical devices. Thought is the organising factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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altogether, articulately, dimension, impulses, in a way, mystical, originate in, plunge, possessing, region, sensible, supernatural, understandable
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