Quote by Norman Doidge

“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”

— Leo Frobenius

“I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure." ”

— Wilhelm Reich

“Some feelings are rooted too strongly in the body to exist without it, and this one, desire, is one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“what draws us to act is not the sensation we receive from the reward itself, but the need to alleviate the craving for that…

— Nir Eyal

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

— Sigmund Freud

“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge),”

— Emily Barr

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.”

— Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or…

— Jack London

“The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.”

— Dean Koontz