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«The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.»
«What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.»
Author: Vicomte de Valmont
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bounds, inspired, prompted, prompting, sanctioned, sanctions, yield
«The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.»
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
«God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive.»
«All human activity is prompted by desire»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Desire
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human activity, prompted
«We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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animated, animates, deceived, entangle, entangled, entangling, fallacies, motives, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, prompted, prompting, seduced
«Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis»
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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abstract, cases, conceiving, conclusions, instinctive, perception, prompt, prompted, prompting