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«Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Action,
Humanity
| Keywords:
compulsions, core, dominate, Human Touch, insight, instincts, The Core
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance,
Habit
| Keywords:
Actions, causes, Cause of action, chance, compulsions, desire, habit, human action, passion, reason, seven, sevens, these
«Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
compulsions, crowd, dynamic, fabric, indirect, interests, materials, The Crowd
«In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.»
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance
| Keywords:
Cause of action, compulsion, compulsions, human action, seven
«Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
compulsion, compulsions, conformity, pressure, uncivilized, undemocratic
«A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
Acts, compelled, compulsion, compulsions, necessity, see to it, voluntary
«Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.»
«Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquired, bodily, compulsion, compulsions, compulsory, exercise, harm, hold on, obtains
«Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blackberry, compulsion, compulsions, plentiful
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