LIEUTENANT TUVOK, Star Trek: Voyager, "State of Flux" (1995)
Nobody knows where instincts come from. They are there, you find them. That is a story that has been played millions of years ago, you know. There, sexuality has been invented. And I wasn't there so I don't know how that happened.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG, Jung Speaks of Freud (1958)
Unless we learn to control the instincts we've inherited from our ape-like ancestors, the race is doomed.
PROFESSOR DONALD BLAKE, Monster on the Campus (1958)
Concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Trust your instincts.
QUI-GON JINN, Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (1999)
When we embrace what lies within, our potential has no limit. The future is filled with promise; the present rife with expectation. When we deny our instinct, and struggle against our deepest urges, uncertainty begins.
MOHINDER SURESH, Heroes, "Chapter Thirteen 'The Fix'" (2007)
Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
NOG, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Storyteller" (1993)
Our true enemy is Instinct. Instinct was our mother when we were an infant species. Instinct cuddled us and kept us safe in those hardscrabble years when we hardened our sticks and cooked our first meals above a meager fire and started at the shadows that leapt upon the cavern's walls. But inseparable from Instinct is its dark twin, Superstition. Instinct is inextricably bound to unreasoning impulses, and today we clearly see its true nature. Instinct has just become aware of its irrelevance, and like a cornered beast, it will not go down without a bloody fight. Instinct would inflict a fatal injury on our species. Instinct creates its own oppressors, and bids us rise up against them. Instinct tells us that the unknown is a threat, rather than an opportunity. Instinct slyly and covertly compels us away from change and progress. Instinct, therefore, must be expunged.
DR. WALLACE BREEN, Half-Life 2 (2004)
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