Instinct Quote by Henry David Thoreau

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes…

— Honore de Balzac

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making…

— Erich Fromm

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

— Swami Vivekananda

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed…

— George Santayana

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his…

— Aldous Huxley

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does…

— Oswald Chambers

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

— Albert Schweitzer

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

— Upton Sinclair

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to…

— Albert Schweitzer

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is…

— William George Jordan

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion,…

— Oscar Wilde

When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to…

— Wilferd Peterson