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Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce – American Indian ProverbRate it:
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. – Bertrand RussellRate it:
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. – C. S. LewisRate it:
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. – Albert SchweitzerRate it:
Man is the cruelest animal. – F. NietzscheRate it:
Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it! – Donald TrumpRate it:
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri-Frédéric AmielRate it:
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness. – Margaret Oliphant OliphantRate it:
The only difference between a human and an animal is in having inspiration. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. – Eric HofferRate it:
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. – Clive Staples LewisRate it:
I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. It is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die, I'll be reborn in paradise, and all that I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down, or stop my collection of slaves for my afterlife.” – Zodiac KillerRate it:
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. – Mark TwainRate it:
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell PhillipsRate it:
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 – Jalal ud-Din RumiRate it:
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal. – Edward Irving KochRate it:
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. – Samuel ButlerRate it:
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. – PlatoRate it:
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for – Dag HammarskjldRate it:
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting. – HermesRate it:
About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste. – Randolph Silliman BourneRate it:
But the animal has no veil. Dogs better treated than Afghan women. (Même l'animal n'a de voile. Chien mieux traité que l'afghane ?) – Charles de LEUSSERate it:
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. – Jacqueline BissetRate it:
Knowing everything about a man doesn’t take as much time as knowing about an animal. – Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

– C. S. LewisRate it:

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

– Albert SchweitzerRate it:

Man is the cruelest animal.

– F. NietzscheRate it:

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

– Donald TrumpRate it:

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.