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Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.
Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.
Instinct and reason how can we divide?
'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.
Instinct and reason how can we divide?
'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no read more
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Instinct is untaught ability
Instinct is untaught ability
How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine,
Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!
'Twixt that and reason what read more
How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine,
Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!
'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!
Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
