Rational Animal Quotes
- The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
- Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson
- Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and… — Steven Pinker
- All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He… — Robert McNamara
- Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. — Robert A. Heinlein
- Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. — Anatole France
- 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
- 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
- I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he… — Oscar Wilde
- Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of… — Bertrand Russell
- When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and… — Brennan Manning
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Orson Welles