Quotes About Instincts

If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers.

The goals installed in Homo sapiens, that problem-solving, social species, are not just the Four Fs. High on the list are understanding the environment and securing the cooperation of others.

in which I argued that human beings are fitted by evolution with a number of destructive motives such as greed, lust, dominance, vengeance, and self-deception.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

And the story suggests something more: unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us—in this case, an artificial animal that brings out our own animal instincts in a completely unregulated way. The old Hebrew story makes it clear how the ancients felt about our prospects for civilized behaviour in the absence of rules that seek to elevate our gaze and raise our standards.

Nos costó mucho entender que frustrando un placer particular se podía obtener un provecho, ya que algo así se opone frontalmente a nuestros instintos animales más fundamentales, que exigen una satisfacción inmediata, sobre todo en los inevitables períodos de carestía.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

Without light, you will have only your instincts. Follow them and if they are true, you will be safe." "What if they are not true?" "Then you will die in darkness.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

Not trusting my instincts any further, I loaded up a piece of high-end avatar dance software called Travoltra, which I'd downloaded and tested earlier that evening. The program took control of Parzival's movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Just like that, I became a dancing fool. Art3mis

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Power consists in making oneself the goal of another person's social instincts, without seeking to satisfy one's own social instincts through him. The other then does everything one asks. Powerlessness consists in wanting or having to satisfy one's social instincts through another person whose social instincts one has not succeeded in concentrating on oneself - one then does everything the other asks.

I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.

I learned this through Iron Man - it really doesn't matter what I think about who he is because everybody has such a huge idea about what they think the guy is. You can't just rely on your instincts and your imagination, you have to match up with what the expectations are from the people.

I'm a basketball player - I rely on instincts and IQ.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

My mum always reminds me to trust my instincts. If a project doesn't feel right and doesn't excite me, it's likely it won't help me to get to where I want to be.

Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.