Jock Sturges Quotes

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

Biology always beats will power.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

It is futile to go against human nature.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman