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Instinct Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this…
- Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which…
- Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of…
More Instinct Quotes
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every… — Kim Basinger
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
- Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and… — Max Beerbohm
- Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized… — Henri Bergson