Quotes About Instinct

O to break loose, like the chinooksalmon jumping and falling back,nosing up to the impossiblestone and bone-crushing waterfall.

you trip and lance Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping The jellied iridescence of the crab.

I find that I fall into two parts which roughly correspond to instinct and conscience. To use a figure, I might characterize both parts as writers. Neither one, as far as the simple daily calls of life go, is much of a success.

The dead season when wolves live off the wind.

Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, "Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.

natural selection didn't design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take care of your genes.

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

This is a reminder that natural selection didn't design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take care of your genes.

The wild animal loves pure men because those men, at one time, were themselves prey.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.

Can't all beasts be tamed?

So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.

Be guided by your heart.

Sin embargo, el instinto es más sabio que el intelecto.

As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium.

Your heart is always wiser than your head

Human beings are hardwired to act in alignment with our self-identity

Y así, quizá por primera vez en su vida, prescindió de los grilletes de la razón y decidió confiar en su intuición. Se sentía más seguro así.

I did it all mechanically. Mechanically, as in without thought, as in through force of habit, as in instinctively, automatically, involuntarily. Mechanically, as in like-a-machine.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine. The fleet limbs of the antelope?

There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.

I felt a strong desire to howl at the moon. It was such a howlable moon. But I restrained myself.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, he said, and I think of my relatives constantly.