Quotes About Instinct

You know inside whether it's right. But you still have to choose to do it.

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.

The need to express ourselves at all costs is hard-wired into our brains as deeply as our drive for food or sex.

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

I got to pee.

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad of it. The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience on the third planet of the Sun.

A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces

O tigre não precisa de proclamar a sua trigritude. Salta sobre a sua presa e exerce-se tigre.

A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey

Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!"

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Could it be that what we called aberrant behavior was in fact the natural state of man? Was there an instinct to kill? An instinct to rob,rape,maim,and destroy? In animals Joe saw every act that man had proclaimed criminal and sinful performed with startling regularity.

Imagine that; you survive the apocalypse, the scourge of Satan, the wrath of Jesus, and your first order of business is to bust a nut." "I'm not surprised. Humans were never good at prioritizing," I replied,

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

The desires of the human heart know no reason or rules.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. THat's no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

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