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The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Henri Rousseau
instinct justice men

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

Henri Matisse
instinct behinds lost

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
rivals instinct love
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of... by Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Henry Cantwell Wallace
crops instinct nature
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no inter... by Helen Mirren

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Helen Mirren
maternal-instinct instinct motherhood

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

Haruki Murakami
hungry instinct talent

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Henri Frederic Amiel
instinct spontaneity earth

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Henri Frederic Amiel
proof instinct faith
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice a... by Henryk Sienkiewicz

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Henryk Sienkiewicz
instinct moral enemy

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Friedrich Nietzsche
instinct self reality
The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look. by Hiroya Oku

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

Hiroya Oku
killers instinct looks

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

Holland Taylor
instinct people interesting
Intuition is reason in a hurry. by Holbrook Jackson

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Holbrook Jackson
instinct intuition reason
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilit... by Honore de Balzac

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Honore de Balzac
instinct born men
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify... by Horace Mann

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Horace Mann
instinct habit overcoming

Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.

Hugo Munsterberg
instinct gone school

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Honore de Balzac
instinct sacrifice men
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't lo... by Ilsa J. Bick

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Ilsa J. Bick
drowning instinct looks

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Henry David Thoreau
instinct house steps

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

Jake M. Johnson
instinct real-life real
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