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“Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.”

“And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.”

Way Humans Human Beings Behavior Instinct Intellect Noble Aspiration Aggressive Sophisticated Rise Above Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!”

Needs Behavior Instinct Guides Pursue Rabbits

Author:Cheshire Cat

“Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.”

Should Hands Law Desire Natural Behavior Instinct Natural Instinct

Author:Michel Foucault

“Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.”

Order Dog Behavior Instinct Useless Explaining

Author:Cesar Millan

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”

Humans Persons War Belief Behavior Instinct

Book:Grip of the Shadow Plague

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague

“Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.”

Law Individual Levels Moral Behavior Survival Instinct Moral Law Moral Behavior

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.”

Men Life Firsts Soul Science Animal Progress Behavior Survival Ethics Intelligent Instinct Primaries Ethical Ingenuity Ethical Behavior

Author:Charlie Chaplin