“Dharma is about exchange, about giving and receiving, It is about outgrowing animal instincts, outgrowing fear, discovering the ability to feed others,… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“You will have guessed what has really happened here, beneath all this: that will to self-tormenting, that repressed cruelty of the animal-man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“Darn! what a beautiful night! Heading towards Pandara Road-Gulati Restaurant, with open windows of my baby sedan and this broad chest guy… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“Now I happen to possess the bump of locality. It is not a virtue; I make no boast of it. It is… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Here’s what turns a successful hierarchy into one that impedes progress: when too many people begin, subconsciously, to equate their own value… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved… — John Stuart Caitlin Stuart Copy Share Image
“This war is not for property. This war is about dharma. And dharma is about outgrowing the animal instinct of territoriality and… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering. — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
“What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?” Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks… — Rhi Etzweiler Copy Share Image
When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“I'm a dog. I don't have a name yet. (a dazed Namiki) This guy is "Namikisan". That's what Kanade calls him, anyway.… — Sakura Tsukuba Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Kodiak Point, where the wildlife might wear clothes, but animal instinct rules the heart.” — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image