Quotes with animal

  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
  • Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
  • Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
  • Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
  • I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
  • Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • Albert Einstein Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Valerie Solanas To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • John le Carré A committee is an animal with four back legs.
    John le Carré
    British author (1931 - 2020)
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  • Brantley Gilbert A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Asa Gray But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Georges Bataille Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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