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Animal Quotes by Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though…
- Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
- If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
- For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is…
- But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people…
- Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there…
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility…
- Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are…
- We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something…
- It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
- Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea…
- Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals…
- For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice…
- Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
- Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
- The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those…
- Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
- Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
- Man is naturally a political animal.
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough