Animal Quote by Dale Jamieson

“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we form is…

— Margaret R. Graver

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes…

— Ernest Sosa

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from…

— Eric Kandel

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim…

— Bertrand Russell

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle”

— Christine Zolendz

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

— George Monbiot

“was Aristotle who said it: “All human actions have one or more of seven causes,” and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit,…

— Carole Radziwill

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle”

— Greg Iles