Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
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