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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instinct
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Instinct
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

Fact, Myth, Instinct, Selection bias, Confirmation bias
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Albert Einstein

Instinct
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Instinct
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

Instinct
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

James Russell Lowell

Instinct
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Osler

Instinct
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Joseph Addison

Instinct
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Henry David Thoreau

Instinct

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.