Quotes About Instinct

The 'look of love' not only communicates our feeling of love for someone but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it takes to make that person happy.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping, and fucking as much as possible before something bigger comes along and devours us.

Children hit first because aggression is innate, although more dominant in some individuals and less in others, and, second, because aggression facilitates desire. It's foolish to assume that such behaviour must be learned. A snake does not have to be taught to strike.

Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous.

When you don't know what to do, you must be prepared to do anything and everything, in case it becomes necessary. You're sitting in your car with the gas and brake pedals both punched to the mat. Too much of that and everything falls apart.

The wise and ancient parts of you, seriously concerned with your survival, are neither easy to deceive nor to set aside.

Ya estábamos compitiendo por una posición antes de tener piel, manos, pulmones o huesos. Así, hay pocas cosas más naturales que la cultura. Las jerarquías de dominación son más antiguas que los árboles.

Lo único que sabía, por instinto, era que los más pequeños rezumaban egoísmo. Formaba parte de su propia inocencia. Egoísmo por precaución, por supervivencia, por necesidad.

Nuestra especie apenas distingue los sonidos de la agonía y del orgasmo

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.

Nou? zecimi din ce i se atribuie sexualit??ii constituie opera magnificei noastre puteri de a imagina,care nici nu mai este instinct,ci dimpotriv?:o crea?ie

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.