#Impulse Quotes

“Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual”

“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”

“Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”

“The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.”

“A lonely impulse of delight”

“A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought.”

“The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.”

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?”

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

“Vengeance is without foresight.”

“Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.”

“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.”

“Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.”

“One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."”

“I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.”

“To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.”

“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

“Man governs himself more by impulse than reason”

“Father! Can I box him? Please!”

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”