Animal Quote by Denis Diderot

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter…

— Robert Greene

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man…

— John Donne

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

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of…

— Charles Darwin

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

“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard…

— Immanuel Kant

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making…

— Erich Fromm

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that…

— Mark Twain

Understanding the animals' instinct is much much easier than to understand the human beings' (pseudo) intelligence!

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an…

— Anonymous

“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.”

— Mitta Xinindlu