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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
Appreciation | Beauty | Instinct | Nothing | Appreciation |
Equality does not seem to take the same form in acts of justice and in friendship; for in acts of justice what is equal in the primary sense is that which is in proportion to merit, while quantitative equality is secondary, but in friendship quantitative equality is primary and proportion to merit secondary.
Equality | Justice | Merit | Sense | Friendship |
Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.
Experience | Instinct | Man | Nature |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The instinct of conventionality, horror of uncertainty, and vested interests, all militate against the acceptance of a new idea.
Acceptance | Instinct | Uncertainty |
If sensuality be our only happiness, we ought to envy the brutes; for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Envy | Instinct | Reason | Sensuality | Happiness |
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
There are people who want to keep our sex instinct inflamed in order to make money out of us. Because, of course, a man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales-resistance.
Instinct | Little | Man | Money | Obsession | Order | People |
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race and that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Children | Creed | Dignity | Earth | Equality | Human nature | Justice | Liberty | Nature | Race | Religion | Teach | Will |
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
Equality | Nature | Order | Understanding |
The instinct for justice, when equipped with all the resources of technology, is capable of laying waste to the earth itself.
Earth | Instinct | Justice | Technology | Waste |
Friendship may indeed come to exist without sensuous liking or comradeship to pave the way; but unless intellectual sympathy and moral appreciation are powerful enough to react on natural instinct and to produce in the end the personal affection which at first was wanting, friendship does not arise.
Appreciation | Enough | Instinct | Sympathy | Friendship | Appreciation |