58 Metaphors for instincts

But this instinct is an admirable sagacity and dexterity, not in the beasts, who neither do, nor can then, have time to reason, but in the superior wisdom that governs them.

Instinct becomes a blind, unreasoning, relentless passion.

Perhaps, if his instinct had been truer, it might have quickened Mercy's.

'Shopping' is an amusement so gratifying to all women on Earth, from the veiled favourites of an Eastern seraglio to the very unveiled dames of Western ballrooms, that I suppose the instinct must be native to the sex wherever women and trade co-exist.

My own instinct, apart from my opinions, would be quite the other way.

The instincts of sex, for instance, are becoming in all civilised countries more and more the subject of serious thought.

Her instinct of going to comfort someone else was the outcome of the strife she was having not to collapse in a miserable, selfish breakdown.

," said Father Payne, "is of course the thing you call yourselfbut the ultimate instinct is probably a sense of proportiona sense of beauty, if you like!"

Instructions may order, but instinct prevails; instructions may be crime, but instinct is honor.

Recentlyto illustrate that the Irish still retain their instinct for common ownershipthere had been, as the bishop mentioned, a successful socialistic experiment in Clare.

This natural instinct is both an impulse toward truth and a capacity for good or impulse to self-preservation.

This negro instinct for brilliant color is the theme of many jests in the South, but it is entirely justified esthetically, although the constant sarcasm of the whites has checked its satisfaction, if it has not corrupted the taste.

His every instinct was an Apache's: left to himself he would strike always from behind, and run like a cur to cover.

That instinct of the wild was already becoming master of him.

At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is a proof of his kinship with apes.

But instincts and presentiments, though we are not scientifically ignorant enough to disregard them, are not evidence on which we can act or even inquire.

He does not enforce the creations of his imagination by the analogy of natural appearances; his instinct is just the oppositeto describe and illumine nature by a reference to the creatures of thought.

With Plato instinct is a reminiscence of something which a man has never actually experienced in his lifetime; in the same way as, in the Phaedo and elsewhere, everything that a man learns is regarded as a reminiscence.

The instinct to conceal certain moods of depression and distress together with the histrionic power to make the concealment possible may be a serious peril to a woman of Mary Wollaston's temperament.

In intelligence he is far below the horse, the dog, the monkey, or even the swine; the only instincts of his nature are hunger and lust, and even these are fitful and irregular.

The mistaken idea that instinct is a sufficient guide in so delicate and sacred and vital a matter, the comfortable superstition that babies bring their own directions with them,these fictions have existed long enough.

Instinct is genius in Paradise, before the period of self-abstraction (self-recognition).

Her instinct is an inspiration.

The deepest instinct in man is his religion, that is, his attitude to eternal issues; and on that attitude must depend his relation to temporal things.

"The primal difference between civilized men and the nameless savage is love of home, and the powerful races are those in whom this instinct is the strongest.

58 Metaphors for  instincts