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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.”

Should Feelings Earth Beautiful Left Natural Words Of Wisdom Instinct Dear Affection Productions Weed Almighty Sweetest New Feelings

Book:Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

Source: Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

“Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.”

Able Doubt Instinct Be Confident

Author:Amy Plum

“It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”

Men Culture Consciousness Instinct Denial Opposing

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.”

Thinking Men Feels Believe Littles Reason Born Atheism Blind Instinct Privilege Oneself Philosopher Positive Atheism Finest Dishonour

Author:Denis Diderot

“I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."”

Thinking Years Believe Said School Wonderful Atheism Taught Tools Instinct Eight Credit Positive Atheism Tales Fairy Rejects Fairy Tale Grammar Grammar School Trust Myself

Author:George Carlin

“I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.”

Moments Cutting Depends Instinct Edges Territory Cutting Edge

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.”

Ifs Giving Believe Sound Giving Up Instinct Guts Never Giving Up

Author:Alexander Wang

“Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.”

Instinct Pity Just Listen

Author:Chris Bosh

“I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.”

Thinking Hard Artist Speak Strong My Own Absolutes Instinct Admire Attacking Politeness Speaks Out

Author:Stephen Fry

“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Ideas Sometimes Matter Character Certain Actors My Own Acting Watches One Thing Position Scene Presses Instinct Dialogue Producers I've Learned Things I've Learned

Author:Gerard Butler

“If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.”

People Ifs Way Want Giving Feels Ideas Stories Views Worry Audience Seeing Approach Instinct Point Of View Helpful Texture Minimalist Latches

Author:Wes Anderson

“Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.”

Ifs Men May Whole Roles Genius Men And Women Instinct Compare Ornamentation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!”

“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire”

“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.”

Humans Beautiful Human Beings Power Masters Army Slave Instinct Oneself Crowds Architecture Lust Fancy Aesthetic Uniforms Drills Lust For Power

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.”

Thinking Lines Chance Sun Conditions Instinct Intuition Thoughtful Rays Freak Straight Lines

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.”

Doe Sex Novel Comedy Tragedy Instinct Novelists Pornography Exploits

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.”

Men Mind Water Danger Divine Instinct Storm Proof Mistrust Boisterous

Book:King Richard III

Source: King Richard III

“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.”

Source: The spectator

“You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.”

Humans Wells May Whole Feelings Humanity Interest Church Principles Bird Instinct Feathers Congressman

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?”

Knows Joy Animal Instinct Track Brushes Glances Palms Trotting Armadillos

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We heed no instincts but our own.”

Instinct Miscellaneous Heed

Book:Fables

Source: Fables

“The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.”

Men World Humans Wells Children Age Turns Sides Wise Universal Instinct Simplicity Human Life Good Man Truest Containing Bad Man Affirming Inquisitive

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities

“To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.”

Men Ideas Life Is Strong Justice Teaching Acceptance Tradition Social Justice Majority Instinct Affair Contrary Tendencies Grants Progressive Inheritance Precedent

Book:The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

Source: The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”