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| If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for ANIMALS. If ANIMALS don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. | Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist |
| Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. | Francis Picabia | 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet |
| Every animal knows more than you do. | Native American Proverb | Sayings of Native American Origin |
| The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of ANIMALS. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the ANIMALS, man makes himself. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| A committee is an animal with four back legs. | John Le Carre | |
| I know at last what distinguishes man from ANIMALS; financial worries. | Romain Rolland | 1866-1944, French Writer |
| Man, an animal that makes bargains. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
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| Mankind are ANIMALS that makes bargains, no other animal does this. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher ANIMALS, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| 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 | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
| Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. | Alexander Hamilton | 1757-1804, American Statesman |
| Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
| Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. | Ann Landers | 1918-, American Advice Columnist |
| I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small ANIMALS. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? | Anne Tyler | |
| At his best, man is the noblest of all ANIMALS; separated from law and justice he is the worst. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
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| Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Man is by nature a political animal. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and ANIMALS, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. | Arnold Toynbee | 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
| I have enforced the law against killing certain ANIMALS and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. | Asoka | ?-238 B.C., Buddhist Emperor of India |
| 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 | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to ANIMALS, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A merciful person is merciful to their ANIMALS. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as ANIMALS they inhabit time. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
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| 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 savours the perverse or reflects upon it. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967, American Poet |
| There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door. | Charleton Jr. Ogburn | |
| What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. | Chief Seattle | 1786-1866, American Indian Chief of the Suquamish |
| Mankind differs from the ANIMALS only by a little and most people throw that away. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. | Dag Hammarskjold | 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N. |
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| Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. ANIMALS know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. | David Seabury | American Doctor, Author |
| You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. | Deborah Boliver Boehm | |
| Even savage ANIMALS can agree among themselves. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. | Doris Day | 1924-, American Singer, Film Actress |
| If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. | Dustin Hoffman | 1937-, American Actor |
| When man learns to understand and control his own behaviour as well as he is learning to understand and control the behaviour of crop plants and domestic ANIMALS, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. | E. G. Stakman | |
| There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. | Edith Hamilton | 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator |
| ANIMALS are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. | Edward Hoagland | 1932-, American Novelist, Essayist |
| Those who wish to pet and baby wild ANIMALS, ''love'' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. | Edwin Way Teale | 1899-1980, American Naturalist and Writer |
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