Quotes About Instinct

i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Instinct is something which transcends knowledge

Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read.

if you assume that there is no hope,then you guarantee that there will be no hope. if you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is possibility that you can contribute to making a better world

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

You can't know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.

Perhaps it was simple reflex, her own instinct for survival. Or perhaps it had been his words, bringing back the horror of her mother's death. But when he reached for the satchel, Adrianne ignored the knife and brought her foot up hard between his legs. The knife clattered to the ground only seconds before he did. Bastard, she muttered as she sent the knife careening into the dark. Now your pride's as small as your brain and just as useless. Well put, Philip said as he came up behind her.

Branna told her. "No, back

the dogs growled and snapped. Snarling herself

They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit.

It's not just what she does. It's what she is. Feral, and for her the moon's always full.

driven out. The cougar and the wolf stay, but

T]he social canons and methods by which people build up instinct controls in their communal life are not brought into being deliberately; they evolve over long periods, blindly and without plan. Irregularities and contradictions in drive-controls, huge fluctuations in their severity or leniency, are therefore among the recurrent structural features of the civilizing process.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play The Blue Danube Waltz, get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.

Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain.

Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

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When they say to one another, 'May the Force be with you,' it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.

There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants.