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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inabilit...

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Friedrich NietzscheThe Anti-Christ/Ecce Homo/Twilight of the Idols/Other Writings

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be i...

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We should not conclude from this that everything depends on waves of irrational psychology. On the c...

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Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing ...

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But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, th...

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It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it ...

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Marie-Louise von FranzThe Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, ...

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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use t...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the li...

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As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to ...

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