Animals Quote by Henri Bergson

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

— Benjamin Franklin

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has…

— Benjamin Franklin

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?

— Josh Charles

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one…

— Benjamin Franklin

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction,…

— E. O. Wilson

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

— George Gissing

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;…

— Immanuel Kant

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the…

— Matthew Scully

Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once…

— Anonymous