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Quotes About Instinct

Sometimes being wrong feels so right.
~ Unknown
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
~ Albert Einstein
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
~ Samuel Butler
The goal of all life is death.
~ Sigmund Freud
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
~ Sophocles
I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
~ Erma Bombeck
As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
~ Tom Robbins
A forest bird never wants a cage.
~ Henrik Ibsen
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
~ Madonna
We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to free his hands for masturbation.
~ Jane Wagner
Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run.
~ Unknown
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
~ Oscar Wilde
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
~ Dwight Eisenhower
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another ,before you do anything,you should first decide wether you have a better head or a better heart.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
El sistema operativo de las estructuras límbicas es diferente al del hipotálamo. Para el sistema límbico lo más relevante es: — Descubrir y reconocer los peligros y las oportunidades. — Buscar el placer, la satisfacción y huir del dolor, del sufrimiento. — Generar lazos afectivos a través del contacto físico.
~ Unknown
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
~ Mario Cuomo
He could understand that the creatures, the fish and the owls, should feed and frolic at moon-rise, at moon-down and at south-moon-over, for these were all plain marks to go by, direct and visible. He marvelled, padding on bare feet past the slat-fence of the clearing, that the moon was so strong that when it lay the other side of the earth, the creatures felt it and stirred by the hour it struck. The moon was far away, unseen, and it had power to move them.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
I have hunted for less. I have killed for less. But never with as much pleasure.
~ Marjorie M. Liu