Best Instinct Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.”

“What do you see when you look at me?”

“Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”

“I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.”

“The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.”

“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.”

“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”

“Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”