Animal Quote by James Boswell

“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

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

— Edmund Burke

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible…

— C. Wright Mills

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes…

— Plato

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the…

— John Ruskin

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

— Erich Fromm

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like…

— Lord Byron

MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share…

— Billy Graham

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure…

— William Shakespeare

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

— Lewis Carroll

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many…

— John Rawls