Animal Quotes
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If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
Rene Descartes
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I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.
Willow Shields
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
Franz Kafka
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Jessamyn West
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In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
Marcus Aurelius
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.
Brigitte Bardot
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike
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While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.
Neal Barnard
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
William James
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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
Hippolyte Taine
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What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.
John Burnside
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
John Locke Nazareth
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Lim Cheng Po, Anglican, Royalist, cricketer, respectable husband and father, allowed his animal reflexes out for an avenue walk on the lead.
Anthony Burgess
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Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
Ben Mendelsohn
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A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.
George Schaller
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I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
Doris Day
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They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.
Tahereh Mafi
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We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination
Ohad Naharin
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Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.
Vali Myers
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
James J. Gibson
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
Mahatma Gandhi