Quotes About Instinct

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge

I made up my mind that I would hold on to nothing, that I would expect nothing, that henceforth I would live as an animal, a beast of prey, a rover, a plunderer.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Your mind knows only somethings. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what youknow instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was stronger than hate. It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings, but it was such repulsion, disgust, and perplexity at the senseless cruelty of these creatures, that the desire to exterminate them — like the desire to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders, or wolves — was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation.

Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.

I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling.

Why did millions of people kill one another when it has been known since the world began that it is physically and morally bad to do so? Because it was such an inevitable necessity that in doing it men fulfilled the elemental zoological law which bees fulfill when they kill one another in autumn, and which causes male animals to destroy one another. One can give no other reply to that terrible question.

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

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Like a wounded animal at bay watching the dogs and the hunt close in, Natasha looked from one to the other.

Animalele par s? ?tie c? progenitura le perpetueaz? specia ?i respect? o anumit? lege în acest sens.Numai omul nu ?tie asta ?i nici nu vrea.Singura lui grij? este s? guste din cât mai multe pl?ceri.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Survival breeds its own brand of morality," Silvio said.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Almost by instinct I began to incorporate more narrative in my preaching, in part because storytelling seemed to be the one communicational mode I could depend upon to cross lines of education and age.

Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.

Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

It was as if a rocket had exploded inside him, flooding all the dark places in his mind with light when he had caught up in that dynamic moment with the lead his instinct for adventure had given him.

He who puts the natural instinct in the heart of a bird to fly across a continent in search of a warmer climate is too good to deceive it. Just as we are confident He placed the instinct within the bird, we can be assured He has also provided balmy breezes and springlike sun to meet it when it arrives.

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.