Quotes About Instinct

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

Man is no man, but a wolf

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.