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• The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C.S. Lewis
• But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. — Albert Einstein
• Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves… — Margaret Fuller
• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud
• If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it… — C.S. Lewis
• If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of… — Bruce Chatwin
• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran
• Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove… — Paulo Coelho
• Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more… — Barack Obama
• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Emile M. Cioran
• The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the… — Catherine Crowe
• It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley

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