#instinct

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

Reason is the servant of instinct. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reason #servant

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. ↗

— David Duchovny

#feel #get #hand #instincts #kids

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too. ↗

— Albert Finney

#artist #because #good #got #her

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#behind #both #cut #i #i think

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#gifted #instinct #passes #rich #self-preservation

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. ↗

— Mae West

#emotion #instinct #love

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#else #instead #instinct #might #mistakes

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ↗