Quotes About Instinct

Oh, we're human, all right," she said. "Humans have always been very good at killing.

forces of nature. A man either ran for

Showing signs of weakness was a good way to get eaten.

Sentir antes de comprender.

I still can't believe that animals don't understand why delicious food is in such a ridiculous spot.

It's harder to kill people. The empathy is so much stronger that the mind must invent new reasons. But, if we can somehow link it to our own survival, the mind will make the devious twists and turns necessary to rationalize it. We're very good at that. But it changes people. They learn to hate. Your wolf doesn't need to hate what he kills. It would be easier if we could kill without compunction, like your wolf does, but then, we wouldn't be human.

Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst from her mouth in a primal scream of victory. She did it! At that moment, in a lonely valley in the middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined boundary of the desolate northern loess steppes and the wetter continental steppes to the south, a young woman stood with a bone club in her hand—and felt powerful. She could survive. She would survive.

Suddenly, just as the rain began to fall in earnest, he sat down and howled.

Your wolf doesn't need to hate what he kills. It would be easier if we could kill without compunction, like your wolf does, but then, we wouldn't be human.

Feelers grow when feelers are needed and claws when claws are needed and cunning when cunning is needed. . . .

Your body knows how to fall.

I walked round the block thinking I'd think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.

sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature.

Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile? Is it not that he thereby returns to his primitive state, and that, while the animal which has acquired nothing and which also has nothing to lose, always retains its instinct, man, in losing through old age or other accidents all that his perfectibility has enabled him to acquire, thus falls even lower than the animal itself?

To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.

nunca hará mal alguno a otro hombre, ni aun a cualquier ser sensible, salvo el legítimo caso en que, hallándose comprometida su propia conservación, se vea forzado a darse a sí mismo la preferencia.

Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is

Abandoned to themselves, they soon weary of disorder, and instinctively turn to servitude. It was the proudest and most untractable of the Jacobins who acclaimed Bonaparte with greatest energy when he suppressed all liberty and made his hand of iron severely felt. It

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse! Grover shrugged. It's nature, he said. Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

We must act out passion before we can feel it.