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

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 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.

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

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

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

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

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

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

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

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

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

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 cannot love without intuition.

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

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 inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

A ‘biomass’ man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

Always remember, when you're on the run, instinct will take over- and if you're not careful, you'll become nothing more than an animal.

Amanda is wrong. I do have an instinct about people, and it tells me David is just fine. I wonder if he doesn't cook because his wife did all the cooking until she died. I wonder what she was like. Like Ma, maybe, capable and in charge, always repeating rules and being protective. I felt smothered sometimes but I know Ma always tried to do what was right for me. One of her unsuccessful lessons in how to make and keep friends was 'Be a little mysterious.' Of course I could never find the right level of mystery. If I asserted myself, she said, 'Don't be too insistent,' and if I hung back too much, it was 'Don't be such a little wallflower.' I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. Maybe that's part of why I love Midnight. Maybe she reminds me of me.