Animals Quote by James Boswell

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a…

— James Boswell

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

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

— Edmund Burke

“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

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 rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

— Thomas Jefferson

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 thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight…

— Hugh MacLennan

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Man is an animal that imagines he is a man.

— Vikrant Parsai

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance…

— Oscar Wilde