Inclination Quotes - Page 16

• My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Firsts, Global Warming, Carbon

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• No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.209

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• Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify
  them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Choices, Fundamentals

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

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• I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the creative outlet ... I'm not actually that happy. I have multiplicities. My happiness blooms and it wilts.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Shadow, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

  Alec-Tweedie

  People, Desire, Actors

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• While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

  Susanna Rowson

  Ruins, Urges, Discretion

  Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin

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• But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.93, Modern Library

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• My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

  Margaret Cho

  Sex, Men, Use

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Inheritance

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Judgment, Imagine

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.374, Stanford University Press

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Rome, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  David Hume (2012). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

  David Hume

  Battle, Oracles, May

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• It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Young, Old Man

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

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• [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

  Countee Cullen

  White, People, Feelings

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• I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

  Sarah Fielding

  Education, Passion, Men

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• I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Women, Struggle

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

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• Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

  Sarah Fielding

  Education, Self, Vanity

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.42

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• Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Boredom, Stronger

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• Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

  Mason Cooley

  Duty

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• Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Weakness, Virtuous

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• If it be the chief point of friendship to
  comply with a friends motions and inclinations,
  he possesses this in a eminent degree;
  he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk,
  which is more than many good friends
  can pretend to do.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Good Friend, Degrees

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.87

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• It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hard Work, Fate, Done

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.186, Variocity

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• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

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• In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

  Raymond Aron

  Way, Settling, Marxist

  1971 Politics and History.

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