{"quotes":[{"text":"My sister, the one who knows everything and pulls out facts out of a bottomless hat, told me people aren't afraid of snakes or water upon birth. It is only once we hear the snake and water stories, she says, once we are exposed to fear, that we deny our primal instincts and make room for the dread to take root and mature.","author":"Tania Aebi","tags":["fear","instinct"],"id":243,"author_id":"Tania+Aebi"},{"text":"In order to survive in a world of instinct,its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["hunted","hunter","instinct","reality","survive"],"id":1048,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["breed","breeding","civilization","eugenics","government","instinct","marriage","mating","nature","past","pity","prediction","progeny","race"],"id":2725,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"Nimrod began to understand that what he was experiencing was, in spite of its appearance of novelty, something which had existed before–many times before. His body began to recognize situations, impressions, and objects. In reality, none of there astonished him very much. Faced with new circumstances, he would dip into the fount of his memory, the deep-seated memory of the body, would search blindky and feverishly, and often find ready made within himself a suitable reaction: the wisdom of generations, deposited in his plasma, in his nerves. He found actions and decisions of which he had not been aware but which had been lying in wait, ready to emerge.","author":"Bruno Schulz","tags":["dogs","instinct"],"id":2858,"author_id":"Bruno+Schulz"},{"text":"As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["faith-in-yourself","faith","instinct","self-trust","trust-your-gut","willingness-to-believe"],"id":2860,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.].","author":"Jean-Henri Fabre","tags":["biology","evolution","form","fossil","history","instinct","past","science"],"id":2891,"author_id":"Jean-Henri+Fabre"},{"text":"Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["instinct","instinct","instinctive","nature","nature-of-things","woman","women","women","women-vs-men","workings"],"id":4307,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["instinct","instinct","instinctive","nature","nature-of-things","woman","women","women","women-vs-men","workings"],"id":4307,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["bitter","darling","instinct","truth","weak"],"id":4434,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Holly Estil Cunningham","tags":["civilization","instinct","philosophy","psychology","violence"],"id":4900,"author_id":"Holly+Estil+Cunningham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":213,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}