"When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me."
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"Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free."
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"His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in."
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"Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive."
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"We heed no instincts but our own."
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"Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities."
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"Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest."
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"I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?"
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"Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that."
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