A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
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If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.
The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.
I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.
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