Showing posts with label instinct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instinct. Show all posts

November 18, 2010

#2,252

If there existed a religious instinct, instead of religious experience, religion would lack importance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

September 23, 2010

#1,917

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

July 8, 2010

#1,447

Man today oscillates between the sterile rigidity of the law and the vulgar disorder of instinct.
He knows nothing of discipline, courtesy, good taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 245

June 20, 2010

#1,308

Each suppressed taboo makes human existence recede toward the dullness of instinct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

April 6, 2010

#861

What the contemporary psychologist emphatically rejects is less the notion of instinct than the word “instinct.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 158

March 1, 2010

#590

The crowd calls no actions intelligent except actions of the intellect in the service of instinct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 110

February 20, 2010

#476

Whoever abandons himself to his instincts degrades his face as obviously as he degrades his soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 93

January 29, 2010

#213

Between the anarchy of instincts and the tyranny of norms there extends the fleeting and pure territory of human perfection.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 54