Quote by Albert Einstein
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary in

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. – Albert Einstein

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein

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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. – Henry David Thoreau

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. – William Osler

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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