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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that…

— Theodore Dreiser

“Or how about this hypothetical definition. Reason is a complex type of instinct that has not yet formed completely. This implies that instinctual behavior…

— Arkady Strugatsky

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

— Baruch Spinoza

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

— Sigmund Freud

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

— Ovid

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

— Jodi Picoult

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms…

— Bertrand Russell

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

— Jerome Frank

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin