#instinct

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

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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

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Instinct is the nose of the mind. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

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Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. ↗

— Julien Benda

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here. ↗

— Deborah Cox

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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ↗

— Will Cuppy

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