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inclinations
«Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Anarchy,
Boys,
Society
| Keywords:
cower, cowering, cringe, inclinations, instincts, radical, rebel, revolutionary, transformation, undergo
«The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
biologically, creates, fixed, Human nature, human process, inclinations, social, social process, The Social
«Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Facts,
Passion
| Keywords:
alter, dictates, inclinations, stubborn
«There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.»
«Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Laughter,
Soul,
Tears
| Keywords:
inclinations, presented, presents
«Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Learning,
Men,
Opinions,
Thinking
| Keywords:
commonly, custom, imbibed, imbibes, inclinations
«When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
inclinations, scholarly, sexuality