Quotes About Instinct

Hope for the best, plan for the worst." "That wouldn't get us a warrant." "Warrants are about what you can prove. Not what you know." "And you know?" "It's an instinct thing. It's why I'm still here, after seven million years. Darwinism in action.

The human brain, instinctively, and unfailingly translates everything into terms of How does that affect ME? Start every appropriate sentence with you.

Nietzsche does not believe that one can return to the ancient ideas. But [he does believe that] someone [who] enacts [a] revolt against the modern ideas reveals a higher instinct than [those who show smug] satisfaction with the modern ideas.

Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.

Conscious thought is a great aid in designing a car or deciphering the mathematical laws of nature, but for avoiding snake bites or cars that swerve into your path or people who may mean to harm you, only the speed and efficiency of the unconscious can save you.

Evolution has provided us with an unconscious mind because our unconscious is what allows us to survive in a world requiring such massive information intake and processing.

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

Our subliminal brain is invisible to us, yet it influences our conscious experience of the world in the most fundamental of ways: how we view ourselves and others, the meanings we attach to the everyday events of our lives, our ability to make the quick judgment calls and decisions that can sometimes mean the difference between life and death, and the actions we engage in as a result of all these instinctual experiences.

The voluntarist worship of mindless action may be designated by the term "activism." Activism is the form of irrationalism which extols direct physical action, based on will or instinct or faith, while repudiating the intellect and its products, such as abstractions, theory, programs, philosophy. In a very literal sense, activism is irrationalism—in action. "We approach the realities of the world only in strong emotion and in action ... ," says Hitler.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Run! her mind screamed. Stay! her heart plead.

The trouble was that he happened to possess a very special faculty—a faculty for telling a person's character simply by smelling of him. He could smell out the innermost souls of people.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

If you smell fear - bite on it

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.