Quotes about Instinct

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality

Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Follow your own nature.