Quotes About Instinct

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Sometimes you just have to stop thinking and just go where your heart takes you.

Conformity doesn't get you anywhere. Be Unique. Be different. Being strong-willed is different from being stubborn. Follow and trust your own instinct.

At a time when I believed what people told me, I should have been tempted to believe Germany, then Bulgaria, then Greece when they proclaimed their pacific intentions. But since my life with Albertine and with Françoise had accustomed me to suspect those motives they did not express, I did not allow any word, however right in appearance of William II, Ferdinand of Bulgaria or Constantine of Greece to deceive my instinct which divined what each one of them was plotting.

For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.

Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I swear to you, although it defies logic, that at least one cat always knows when it's Saturday morning and she's entitled to tuna.

Do you know," he said, "that there are people who can't go near high places not because they're afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump?

It's not emotion that makes him gentle; it's instinct. He can be gentle even when he feels no emotion; he can be gentle when touching something soft. The way you're careful when you touch a peach.

From an evolutionary perspective, he says, it is safest to err on the side of gullibility. "If you miss the tiger hiding in the grass, you're dead. If you're always seeing tigers, you're running away a lot, but you're not dead.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Sheep eat the grass, wolves eat the deer, and dragons eat everything that doesn't run away fast enough.

People aren't too different from lab rats. We seek out rewarding experiences and steer clear of punishing ones. If interaction with you is a disagreeable event, people will avoid it. (from chapter 12) tl;dr people aren't too different from lab rats

People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

After all, the fear is the thing which keep us alive, why do you want to get rid of it??

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.