“Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.”

“Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration.”

“No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.”

“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.”

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”

“Good officers never engage in general actions unless induced by opportunity or obliged by necessity.”
Boni duces publico certamine numquam nisi ex occasione aut nimia necessitate confligunt.

“The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.”

“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”