Ancient Quote by Frans de Waal

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found…

— Anonymous

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that…

— Mark Pagel

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of…

— Jane Roberts

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

— Anonymous

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

— Thomas Ligotti

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

— Antonio Damasio

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of…

— Jane Goodall