Morality is the
herd-instinct in the individual.
View quotes by Friedrich NietzscheMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. [Appearance and Reality, Preface]
View quotes by F H BradleyA herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world (Out of Africa)
View quotes by Isak DinesenThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
View quotes by Thomas GrayTo see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
View quotes by Sun TzuLions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
View quotes by John GayWe herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
View quotes by George PattonThe dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
View quotes by Archibald MacLeishWomen have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything but the obvious.
View quotes by Oscar WildePassion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
View quotes by Edmund BurkeThere is no instinct like that of the heart.
View quotes by Lord ByronThe 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.
View quotes by James ThurberThis 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.
View quotes by Malcolm MuggeridgeAll men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
View quotes by Hilaire BellocReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
View quotes by William CowperTrust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo EmersonMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmHumour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
View quotes by Max EastmanSurely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
View quotes by Laurence OlivierThe reason good women like me flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
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