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“My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.”

People Animal Solitude Instinct Overpowering Animal Instinct

Author:Samantha Abeel

“Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know.”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

“What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity”

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Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”

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Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.”

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

Use Used Lost Animal Lows Instinct Percentages Animal Instinct

Author:Marion Cotillard

“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

People Thinking Sometimes Reality Animal Brain Smart Instinct Over You Capability Smart People Really Smart Animal Instinct

Author:Cristian Machado