“I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.” FirstsLevelsFirst TimeInstinctCancerComplexityResearchersBleakCellular Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.” FirstsMovementInstinct Author:Amelie Nothomb
“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.” IfsGivingFirstsKindStatesFeelingsCareCausesPrinciplesDangerParticularInstinctSakePainfulExcitedExplanationComfortingLiberatingDiscomfortAbolishConditional Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.” MenFirstsIntelligentInstinctVanityVainDoormatSelf Glorification Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.” FirstsLongLastsYouthInstinctIntellectSurrenderSkepticismNobilityFidelityDiscretionShamefulChastityRipeness Book:The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word Source: The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word