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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.

Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than comm...

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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly buil...

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When love is not madness it is not love.

...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his bet...

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Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit....

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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you b...

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I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sol...

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Richard BransonLosing My Virginity: How I've Survived

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have...

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To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and p...

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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are le...

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The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identi...

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It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the...

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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a ch...

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Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposi...

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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmfu...

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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to...

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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't...

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An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does...

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When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

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I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

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We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible...

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If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King R...

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What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intu...

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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by...

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Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the thi...

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When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am righ...

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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what...

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I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I m...

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Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.