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Instinct Definition
(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently...
Tiffany Madison
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challenge, essence, flaw, human, human condition, human nature, humanity, illusion, instinct, instincts
Some people look for the obvious and make decisions based on that. However, sensitive people look for the subtle things in life. They observe what is missed, overlooked and rarely observed by others....
Shannon L. Alder
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caring, clues, connections, empathic, feeling, feelings, following signs, gut, gut instinct, hypersensitive
If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality compl...
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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call, calling, destroy, generosity, giving, instinct, legacies, legacy, memorial day, memorials
The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mi...
Stefan Zweig
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awaiting, aware, awareness, banish, cheap optimism, cowardice, danger, dangers, food, human beings
My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what lo...
Nikki Rowe
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brave, core values, courage, guidance, instinct, knowing, let love in, love, open heart, possibility
You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with everystep but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their f...
Nikki Rowe
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free spirit, freedom, gypsy, instinct, leader, run with wolves, soul, strength, strong women, wild