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We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

We heed no instincts but our own.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

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

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

You cannot love without intuition.

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

A ‘biomass’ man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct