Sentences with phrase «fundamental human instincts»

To care for our children is one of the most fundamental human instincts.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.

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Otherwise they will be like indolent workmen who find no spur to action in a task to be achieved; or else, if a healthy human instinct overrides their hesitancies or the fallacies they derive from a misunderstanding of religion, they will still be a prey to a fundamental division and frustration within themselves, and it will be said that the sons of heaven can not, on the human level, compete with true conviction and therefore on equal terms with the children of this world.