The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L’instinct de survie – Prouve qu’on est en vie.)

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don’t need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as “the fairer sex”. But...

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity,...

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being...

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form…The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

My instinct is we should commit.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

If my ‘mind’ don’t mind, I don’t mind.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

Survival requires guts and instinct.

One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of...

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kind of people that you are looking for and pay careful attention to their answers and body...

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no...

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,” he said. “And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry...

Be willing to listen to the voice of God.

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don’t even know it.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,’ said Grumman. ‘We have to learn everything we do.

Creative minds doesn’t follow rules, they follow will.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

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

I’m feeling my way and a lot of it right now for me is instinct. I’m meeting with the coaches, spending extra time trying to study and catch up and just get familiar with the...

Whats the difference between a king and his horse?I dont mean some kiddy shit like one has 4 legs and the other has 2, or ones a person and ones an animal. If their form,...

Our natural instinct was to put things online that were public.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see....

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that...

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species...

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving ‘God-fearing’ man to honor the 8th commandment.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

It wasn’t like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

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Those things go by so fast, you don’t really think about it. It’s more instinct, you know? I mean, the shot goes up, you are trying to get position and then it comes up short...

At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

Some instincts are best left uncivilized

My first inclination is to make my business all about me, but my second instinct is to make my business all about everyone else, because everyone else is where all the money is at.

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that’s what so many fail to see. We’re so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct,...

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

Nimrod began to understand that what he was experiencing was, in spite of its appearance of novelty, something which had existed before–many times before. His body began to recognize situations, impressions, and objects. In reality,...

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets....

This is a piece of real evidence to back up the gut instinct many of us have that the denials of complicity we are hearing from E.U. member and candidate states cannot be relied upon.

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn’t care to admit that the inference had any validity....

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will...