Quotes About Instinct

People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

Todos los organismos, incluidos los seres humanos, han sido diseñados por la selección natural para reaccionar a su entorno en modos que conduzcan a una «mejora» (según los criterios de la propia selección natural) de las cosas, lo cual significa que, en mayor o menor medida, casi siempre estamos escudriñando el horizonte en busca de cosas que nos hagan infelices, que nos incomoden o que no nos satisfagan

lasting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural -not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will.

When we decide to do something, we decide on the basis of a feeling.

We're designed by natural selection to get satisfaction out of finding the answers to questions.

Natural selection doesn't "want" us to be happy, after all; it just "wants" us to be productive, in its narrow sense of productive. And the way to make us productive is to make the anticipation of pleasure very strong but the pleasure itself not very long-lasting.

Natural selection doesn't "want" us to be happy, after all; it just "wants" us to be productive, in its narrow sense of productive.

untill he felt Ingeborg slip two fingers into her vagina and then moisten the entrance to her ass with the same fingers and ask him, no, order, him to penetrate her, sodomize her, right now, immediately, before another moment passed, which Reiter did without thinking twice…

Y en quién confía usted? - le preguntó Morini. -En la gente que come cuando tiene hambre, supongo-dijo el desconocido.

As for female mink, if they do not experience physical trauma at the male's hands, they do not ovulate.

The more men and women drink, the more they both seek intercourse — or, at least, the less they resist it.

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

I met her gaze; she looked at me as if she knew the answer to every mystery. I leaned in closer, taking in her scent, and the wolf in me leapt high. Mine. Suddenly she was obviously mine in every way. My club, to protect. Mine . From this moment, I would die rather than see harm come to her. Mine. The Wit told me this little spark of life burned strong. Tiny she was, she would never be prey. ~142

Your wolf still looks out of your eyes. You think that if you stand perfectly still, no one will see you.

The pack does not die if the cub survives. Be a wolf, my brother. Things are clearer so.

She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. You waited until you could snap his spine with a single blow.

In truth, I believe the Wit is as natural a magic as a man can claim. It is the Wit that lets a flock of birds in flight suddenly wheel as one, or a school of fingerlings hold place together in a swiftly flowing stream. It is also the Wit that sends a mother to her child's bedside just as the babe is awakening. I believe it is at the heart of all wordless communication, and that all humans possess some small aptitude for it, recognized or not.

Vindeliar told me he could feel when he was on the true Path. Well, I feel mine now. It feels right, Prilkop." "So many things do when they are the things we want to do.

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster. When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

Wolves have no kings.

If he is smart, he will run. He is not.