Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The… — Sigmund Freud
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
The instinct of the people is right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. — Charles Lindbergh
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts. — Cesare Borgia
An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an… — Maria Montessori
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — Michel de Montaigne
I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor.… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. — Ambrose Bierce
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm
No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.… — Margaret Cho
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? — Saul Bellow
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. — Sigmund Freud
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it… — Richard E. Grant
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why? — Joseph Wood Krutch
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell
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… — George Santayana

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