Quotes About Instinct

And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished.

And now I wonder which animal of us will eat the other first physically and last spiritually?

The ocean," I said, "look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished.

Maybe I should have slammed her? How did a man know what to do? Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting, and fucking.

Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, but no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write.

Hoe al die absurde gedragsregels en al die absurde geloofsovertuigingen ontstaan zijn weten we niet; ...: maar het is opvallend hoe een geloof dat in de vroege levensjaren voortdurend werd ingeprent, als het brein nog ontvankelijk is, welhaast de status van instinct verwerft; en de essentie van een instinct is dat het wordt gevolgd, zelfs tegen de ratio in.

Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

En realidad, dudo de que la compasión sea una cualidad natural o innata.

THINGS HAVE ENDS AND BEGINNINGS" Cloud mountains rise over mountain range. Silence and quietness,                             sky bright as water, sky bright as lake water. Grace is the instinct for knowing when to stop. And where.

Nor did she merely smile, she glowed with inner goodness that made him think of the vast iron cookstove in his grandmother's kitchen back on the farm. Here, he knew by certain instinct, was a woman who made wonderful cookies and would give you some.

There was no sound from the cats. Unlike dogs and rattlesnakes, they don't warn you before they strike. They aren't gentlemen. That's one of the reasons why I like them.

We have a saying that a toad does not run in the day unless something is after it.

Ray Bradbury said it best: "Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Where do you go when the part of your brain that controls judgment is asleep, but the part that controls your motor activity is awake?

Understandably, our Darwinian bodies and primitive brains are not going to catch up with this astonishing state of affairs. We live, in this new safety, in this new time of plenty, like drunken sailors freshly delivered from terrible peril.

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.