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...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages...

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don’t want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

I don’t know if it’s instinct or what, but he always wants to be able to see you. That’s just the way he is.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don’t limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

It amazes the will of Instinct.

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

Can we account for instinct?’ said Monte Cristo. ‘Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries...

Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood – but chances were very good that he wouldn’t, couldn’t, and never...

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses.”Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

Trust what your instincts are telling you, it’s your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

My mouth hung slightly open, i was getting ready to sat something important. what i wanted to say was: I’s so, so sorry. but instead I said, “i love you.” Only then, when i said...

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

In order to survive in a world of instinct,its’ alternative is to hunt or being hunted.Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It’s programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know.

Where had they learned to converse and to dance? I couldn’t converse or dance. Everybody knew something I didn’t know. The girls looked so good, the boys so handsome. I would be too terrified to...

…for everyone there is something unendurable – something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If...

In every problem, there’s a concealed solution…locking itself underneath…unlock,peruse,find and solve.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

That was just an instinct play with the clock going down.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT!

He who discovers the light, discovers life. He who discovers the dark, discovers death, Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what will guide your path. Our minds are our tools, our...

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready to serve you.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is...

Moths don’t need to explain why their attracted to the light.

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire...

We talked all week about having the instinct needed to put teams away but sure didn’t show it tonight. We get up big and then seem to give our momentum and it just kind of...

I’ve always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

I don’t think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before...

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere...

You’re psychic.

A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness...

Moths don’t need to explain why they’re attracted to the light.

Instinct’s aware of reflex when mind ain’t yet.

Some people look for the obvious and make decisions based on that. However, sensitive people look for the subtle things in life. They observe what is missed, overlooked and rarely observed by others. They dwell...

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.