Animal Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be.…

— Ambrose Bierce

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he…

— John Ruskin

“A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a reasoning Animal.

— Seneca the Younger

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such…

— Aldous Huxley

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually…

— Lewis Mumford

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with…

— Colin Wilson

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have…

— Tom Regan

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance…

— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated…

— Michael Crichton

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How…

— Michael Faraday