Animal Quote by Hugh MacLennan

“Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.”

Hugh MacLennan

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Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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