Instinct
Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism toward a particular behavior.
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Famous quotes containing the word instinct:
“The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)
“This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and ... if I think of human beings Ive known and of my own life, such as it is, I cant recall any case of pain which didnt, on the whole, enrich life.”
—Malcolm Muggeridge (19031990)
“My idea is that the world outsidethe so-called modern worldcan only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivorsthe one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poetsand to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)