Animal Quote by Anatole France Download Open image “Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.” — Anatole France ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Believe Intelligence Logic Men Rational Reason Thinking Want
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet… — Ernest Becker Copy Share
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
