Metaphysics 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 BradleyThere is no
instinct like that of the heart.
View quotes by Lord ByronAll men have an
instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
View quotes by Hilaire BellocMorality is the herd-
instinct in the individual.
View quotes by Friedrich NietzscheSurely 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 OlivierTrust your
instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo EmersonHumour is the
instinct for taking pain playfully.
View quotes by Max EastmanThere is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call
instinctView quotes by Robert BraultWomen have a wonderful
instinct about things. They can discover everything but the obvious.
View quotes by Oscar WildeMy
instinct is to keep my engagement ring - After all, I wouldn't like to see it on the finger of a cheeky girl.
View quotes by Sian LloydThe reason good women like me flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire
instinct in every woman.
View quotes by Theda BaraReasoning 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 CowperMen 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 BeerbohmIt was an
instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
View quotes by David LeavittPassion for fame: A passion which is the
instinct of all great souls.
View quotes by Edmund BurkeThe 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.
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