Quotes About Instinct

The sixth sense is not something that one can take off and put on at will.

Any emergency which arouses the emotions, and causes the heart to beat more rapidly than normal may, and generally does, bring the sixth sense into action.

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality

A natureza não está interessada nesse tipo de moral, ela não está interessada no certo ou no errado. Ela não está interessada na justiça ou na injustiça. O seu interesse é unicamente de forçar tudo a expressar a ação de acordo com a sua natureza.

Uncontrolled desire for "something for nothing." The gambling instinct drives millions of people to failure. Evidence of this may be found in a study of the Wall Street crash of '29, during which millions of people tried to make money by gambling on stock margins.

The most powerful of all human emotions is that of sex. There are other mind stimulants, some of which have been listed, but no one of them, nor all of them combined, can equal the driving power of sex.

Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.

what you learn from the intensity and the focus you had when under the influence of risk stays with you. You may lose the sharpness, but nobody can take away what you've learned. This is the principal reason I am now fighting the conventional educational system, made by dweebs for dweebs. Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

for Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.

Don't talk about "progress" in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.

I once procrastinated and kept delaying a spinal cord operation as a response to a back injury—and was completely cured of the back problem after a hiking vacation in the Alps, followed by weight-lifting sessions. These psychologists and economists want me to kill my naturalistic instinct (the inner b****t detector) that allowed me to delay the elective operation and minimize the risks—an insult to the antifragility of our bodies.

Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.

Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny.

The important difference between theory and practice lies precisely in the detection of the sequence of events and retaining the sequence in memory. If life is lived forward but remembered backward, as Kierkegaard observed, then books exacerbate this effect—our own memories, learning, and instinct have sequences in them. Someone

Mathematicians are born, never made. Physicists and quants too. I

La narratividad nace de una necesidad biológica innata conforme a la cual tendemos a reducir la dimensionalidad;

I was told that a scientist managed the company and that he had the instinct, as a scientist, to just let scientists look wherever their instinct took them. Commercialization came later.

In the famous tale by Ahiqar, later picked up by Aesop (then again by La Fontaine), the dog boasts to the wolf all the contraptions of comfort and luxury he has, almost prompting the wolf to enlist. Until the wolf asks the dog about his collar and is terrified when he understands its use. "Of all your meals, I want nothing." He ran away and is still running.*3 The question is: what would you like to be, a dog or a wolf?

people who are otherwise rational engage in smoking or in fights that get them no immediate benefits;

Anything that hinders one's survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.

Rationality does not depend on explicit verbalistic explanatory factors; it is only what aids survival, what avoids ruin.

humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger.

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

Whenever your survival is in play, don't immediately look for causes and effects.