Animals Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals Beast Life Mankind Mass Nature of man Nicomachean ethics Suitable Taste
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming,… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still... — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“People have different attitudes about the universal value of life, but that value, with few exceptions, is scaled to how similar or dissimilar a… — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
“The sheer weight [of human population] threatens that magnificent kaleidoscope of other living things which also depend on... natural sysytems.” — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle 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
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
“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
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous 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
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image