Capacity Quote by Immanuel Kant

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal

— John Ruskin

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary…

— Ludwig von Mises

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear…

— Joseph Hertz

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity…

— John Lennox

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way or perceiving…

— Greg Graffin

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

— Aristotle

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— George Gissing

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero