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Instinct Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
- We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
- Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It…
- 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…
- The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
- It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
- We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
- Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened…
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
- We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to…
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
- 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
- As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have… — Bono