Animal Quote by Charles Darwin

“Many of the physical desires and emotions are akin to those of the lower animals, and in the undeveloped man these desires and emotions…

— Yogi Ramacharaka

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality…

— C. S. Lewis

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and…

— Denis Diderot

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

“With the man/animal boundary so deep a part of the Western psyche, it is little wonder that many resist its dismantling on both a…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has…

— Ludwig von Mises

“All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form”

— The Cruxshadows

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by…

— Pythagoras

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial…

— Charles Darwin

Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by…

— Ernst Haeckel

Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of…

— Joseph Butler