Animal Quote by Hippolyte Taine

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

— William Hazlitt

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the…

— Maxwell Maltz

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

— Oscar Wilde

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by…

— Ernst Haeckel

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

— Thomas Jefferson

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

— John Carroll

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is…it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human.”

— Steven Lang

“My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain…

— James Boswell