Animal Quote by Andrew Lang Download Open image “Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.” — Andrew Lang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Cat Contemplative Contemplative life Pet
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 Copy Share Image
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.” — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They, too, shall perish… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang 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… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
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
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias 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… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett 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
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