Quotes About Instincts

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

We heed no instincts but our own.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.