Quotes About Instinct

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

Le nature sanguinarie nei riguardi degli animali rivelano una naturale inclinazione alla crudeltà

Ahora puedo resumir veinticinco años de investigación de este modo: «Me he dado cuenta de que los seres humanos somos mamíferos. Todos los mamíferos se esconden o se aíslan para dar a luz. Necesitan intimidad. A los humanos les sucede lo mismo. Hay que tener constantemente presente esta necesidad de intimidad».

For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason why humans became intelligent.

had the social instinct of a woman—that of being dependent upon a man. You were afraid

We domesticate humans the same way we domesticate a dog or any other animal: with punishment and reward. This is perfectly normal. What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Estamos tan bien entrenados que somos nuestro propio domador. Somos un animal autodomesticado

We are an autodomesticated animal.

Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?

There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.

A man only has to be chased with firearms for him to turn into a cunning wolf: in place of his weak, and in really desperate situations useless intellect, the wisdom of animal instinct will suddenly take over.

If it were possible to raise the penis by means of a simple command, then sexual excitement would have no place in the world.

Qué es el vértigo? ¿El miedo a la caída? ¿Pero por qué también nos da vértigo en un mirador provisto de una valla segura? El vértigo significa que la profundidad que se abre ante nosotros nos atrae, nos escude, despierta en nosotros el deseo de caer, del cual nos defendemos espantados.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.

La vertigine è qualcosa di diverso dalla paura di cadere. La vertigine è la voce del vuoto sotto di noi che ci attira, che ci alletta, è il desiderio di cadere, dal quale ci difendiamo con paura.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

The first instinct is love.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

I love human aggression. I like it in myself, I think. As far as something to get out, I believe that everybody has it in them, so I like to be an outlet.