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Instinct Quotes by George Santayana
- Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will…
- The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
- The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in…
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- I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin
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- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
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- Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized… — Henri Bergson
- Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I… — Halle Berry
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to… — Mortimer Adler
- Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. — Josh Billings
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