Animal Quote by Eric Hoffer

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been…

— Bernard de Mandeville

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with…

— Colin Wilson

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be…

— Robert Penn Warren

“The young man was sincerely but placidly in love. He delighted in the radiant good looks of his betrothed, in her health, her horsemanship,…

— Edith Wharton

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

— Sarah Hall

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there…

— Iris Murdoch

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling…

— Margaret Atwood

“Our fatal flaw, or Fall, he insisted, was to have developed ‘artificial weapons’ instead of natural ones. As a species, we thus lacked the…

— Bruce Chatwin

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually…

— Lewis Mumford