Abstract Quote by Dale Jamieson

“With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.”

— Alexander von Humboldt

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

— David Abram

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

— Robert Lanza

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact…

— Carl Jung

There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.

— Frans de Waal

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very…

— Barbara Woodhouse

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

— Anthony D. Williams

“Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of…

— Robert Greene

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

— Georges Bataille

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

— Anthony John Patrick Kenny

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting…

— Eckhart Tolle