Quotes about Instinct
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
- DH Lawrence
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
- Mortimer Adler
I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.
- Philip Yancey
How odd, that prayer seems foolish to some people who base their lives on media trends, superstition, instinct, hormones, social propriety, or even astrology.)
- Philip Yancey
Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
- Billy Graham
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
- Marquis de Sade
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
- Napoleon Hill
When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.
- Jason Fried
The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.
- JC Ryle
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- Jacques Maritain
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.
- Louise Hay
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
- Malcolm Muggeridge