Quotes About Instinct

Zugleich die Lust auf Provokation und Rückzug haben, instinktmäßig ein Störenfried und aus Überzeugung ein Leichnam sein!

To will, in the fullest sense of the word, is to be unaware that one wills, is to refuse to loiter over the phenomenon of the will. The man of action weighs neither his impulses nor his motives, still less does he consult his reflexes: he obeys them without reflecting upon them, without hampering them.

With all due respect to Tertullian, the soul is naturally pagan. Any god at all, when he answers to our immediate needs, represents for us an increase of vitality, a stimulus, which is not the case if he is imposed upon us or if he corresponds to no necessity. Paganism's mistake was to have accepted and accumulated too many of them: it died of generosity and excess of understanding—it died from a lack of instinct.

Ä°çgüdüsel olarak putlara tapt???m?zdan, düÅŸlerimizin ve ç?karlar?m?z?n nesnelerini kay?ts?z ÅŸarts?z ÅŸeyler haline getiririz.

Sauve qui peut.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge)

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

If A kills B before B kills A, then A survives, and the human race is a race of A's.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Man, a wild beast, cousin of the gorilla, has emerged from the profound darkness of animal instinct into the light of the mind, which explains in a wholly natural way all his past mistakes and partially consoles us for his present errors.

It is true that love is rooted in appetite, and that appetite has a survival value which I, at least, cannot find in the purely contemplative emotions.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Very early on, I understood that I secretly and mysteriously belonged to the world of cats.

To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

Women understand better than we do the art of analyzing the two human feelings, which alternately form their weapons of attack, or the weapons of which they are victims. They have the instinct of love, because it is their whole life, and of jealousy, because it is almost the only means by which they can control us.

We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did- but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don't mean this in the fatalistic sense; we're constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct.

Sie war wie ein ausgesetztes Katzenjunges, das in der Gosse schwimmt und erbärmlich schreit - diese dämonische, archaische Überlebenskraft.

We're constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.