Animal instinct Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

— H.G. Wells

“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from…

— David Anthony Durham

“Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.”

— Owen Wister

“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.”

— Aharon Feldman

“but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and…

— Anna Sewell

“It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human…

— William Faulkner

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

“When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self.”

— Gian Kumar

“The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position.”

— Allen MacDiarmid