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Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history

“Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.”

World Two Moving Force Morality Instinct Mysterious Altruism Contradictory Alliances Egoism Antagonism

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.”

Together Passion Instinct Hardest Cooks Recipes Hardest Thing

Author:Eva Longoria

“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.”

Firsts Long Lasts Youth Instinct Intellect Surrender Skepticism Nobility Fidelity Discretion Shameful Chastity Ripeness

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

“You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.”

Ends Instinct The End Of The Day

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never foget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.”

Looks Sometimes Remember Life Is Accepting Our Lives Risk Fashion Quiet Good Things Instinct Fingers Determine Pursue Outcomes Encounters Slips Guidelines Trust Your Instincts

Author:Linda Olsson

“Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities”

Men Mind Soul Ends Spiritual Purpose Passion Effort Existence Quality Comfort Tests Instinct Gratification Acquisition

Author:David O. McKay

“Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.”

Men Enough Given Levels Common Genius Instinct Common Sense Educated Knowledgeable Smartness

Author:Josh Billings

“One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.”

Men Might Powerful Greatness Genius Findings Instinct Crowds Impulse Despise Herds Renounce Pastures

Book:Psychology of the Unconscious

Source: Psychology of the Unconscious

“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”

Ifs World Whole Hate Turns Voice Alive Possibility Embrace Instinct Whole World Teeth Tone Hopeful Endurance Feathers Turn-on Stunned

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”

Men Art Artist Lost Challenges Awareness Taste Offers Skills Competition Instinct Simplicity Appetite Relish

Author:Jacques Barzun

“As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.”

Actors Deals Good Things Instinct Rejection Humiliation Trust Your Instincts

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.”

Men Reason Religious Animal Atheism Constitution Instinct

Author:Edmund Burke

“I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.”

Survival Stronger Instinct Things In Life

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.”

World Found Emotion Company Stupid Female Instinct Males Intuition Plenty Cherish Sensibility Perfume Neurotic Nurturing Intriguing Protagonists Uptight Female Protagonists

Author:Tom Robbins

“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Wells Kind Long Done Desire Natural Example Produce Succeed Directors Hollywood Instinct Producers Bad Times Renoir

Author:Orson Welles

“It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.”

“Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.”

Habit Overcoming Instinct

Book:The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

Source: The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

Men Should Reason Animal Existence Produce Perfection Instinct Others Happiness

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.”

Men Giving Should Mean Doe Made Reason Use Purpose Goal Clear Ready Depends Resources Instinct Vain Indication Prodigals

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.”

Born Machines Instinct Fishing Swimming Hunting Riding Rowing Fooling Around

Book:He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader

Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader

“What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.”

World Done Earth Song Humanity Wonderful Magic Elements Silent Instinct Scripts Tales Translate Crash Toil Pits Other Worlds Wands Wagner

Author:Richard Wagner

“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

Men Body Individual Brain Blood Figures Information Fundamentals Instinct Species Collectives Solitary Superiority Inferiority

Author:Philip Wylie

“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

Long Feelings Political Religious Enemy Movement Lessons Instinct Rely Motive Attempting Agitation Obstruction

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!”

Trouble Praying Instinct Apostles Intimidated Persecuted

Author:Jim Cymbala

“How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.”

Instinct Vary Swine

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.”

Sex Unions Instinct

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”