Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
Philip K. DickTags: human-nature hell instinct good-intentions
Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.
Suzanne PalmieriTags: magic intuition instinct
The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics. Of course "nature"-- in common parlance a wholly inaccurate term, by the way, especially when used as if to express a single entity--is entirely ruthless, no less so as regards types than as regards individuals, and entirely indifferent to good or evil, and works out her ends or no ends with utter disregard of pain and woe.
Theodore RooseveltTags: instinct
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.
Augusten BurroughsTags: inspirational intuition instinct
Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.
Robert GalbraithInstinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.
Robert GalbraithYou cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: god religion law survival rules instinct hunger starvation dilemma the-ten-commandments
...for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air. It is merely an instinct which cannot be disobeyed
George OrwellNothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
Charles LapworthTags: science time instinct geology counterintuitive human-instinct
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
Tags: science past biology history evolution instinct fossil form
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