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“Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.”

Lying Talent Bears Instinct Brutes

Book:Poems, Polite convesation, etc

Source: Poems, Polite convesation, etc

“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”

Lying Security Healthy Members Bases Instinct Absence Unconscious Customs Stability Organisms

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.”

Lying Powerful Color Painting Instinct Size Oneself Brilliant Scales Pale Realism Fascination Hue Replication Life Size

Book:Art & soul: notes on creating

Source: Art & soul: notes on creating

“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence”

Firsts Lying Instinct Ill Contact Ease Sensitive Attributes Vivid Cleanliness Filth First Contact

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“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