Quotes About Instinct

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Nadie ha visto nunca a un perro hacer un intercambio justo y deliberado de un hueso por otro con otro perro. Nadie ha visto a un animal que, con gestos y sonidos naturales, indique a otro: esto es mío y esto es tuyo; estoy dispuesto a darte esto a cambio de eso

The democratic and civic instinct in that part of Europe today is largely the product of the two decades of freedom secured by Pi?sudski and his armies on the Vistula in 1920.

Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.

What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

Few things are as antithetical to sex as thought. Sex is instinctive, unreflexive and spontaneous, while thought is careful, uninvolved, and judgemental. To think during sex is to violate a fundamental law of intercourse.

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason.

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

Lewis passionately believed that education is not about providing information so much as cultivating "habits of the heart"—producing "men with chests," as he puts it in his book The Abolition of Man, that is, people who not only think as they should but respond as they should, instinctively and emotionally, to the challenges and blessings the world offers to them.

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we are compelled.

Animals can also be hypnotised. Flip a rabbit on its back, hold it firmly in position with its head back for a couple of minutes, and youll find it will become perfectly motionless and unresponsive, until you clap your hands loudly above its head.

There are people who have the ability to wake up a minute or even seconds before their alarm goes off or to know what time theyve woken up without even looking at a clock. Now, thank God, I dont have to get up in the mornings but the potential of the body to keep such accurate time is remarkable.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.