Instincts Quotes

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'By itself,' he said, 'pain is not always enough.
There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death.
But for everyone there is something unendurable--something that cannot be contemplated.
Courage and cowardice are not involved.
If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope.
If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air.
It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed.

How many percentages of people believe that they are intelligent beings?... But their lives tend to flow into the channel to which their instinct led them. Is it possible to consider your life lived reasonable if you followed the lead of instinct, not reason. Is your merit strong in reasonable reflection between global actions, if, as a result, the main picture turns out to be a carbon copy, being diametrically opposed to the unique picture of intelligent life.