Animals Quote by Aldous Huxley

“Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly.”

— Diogenes

“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.”

— Aharon Feldman

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”

— Elvis Presley

“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair…

— Pierre Boulle

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

— Diogenes

“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”

— Chanctetinyea J. J. Ouellette

“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations, like sex…

— Robin McKinley

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique…

— Storm Jameson

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate…

— Aldous Huxley

“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky