"But their intervention makes our acts to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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More on Instinct
“If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”
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“Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.”
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“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”
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