Animal Quote by Oscar Wilde

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

— Anonymous

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor…

— Bertrand Russell

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

— Anatole France

“The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position.”

— Allen MacDiarmid

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or…

— Anonymous

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to…

— Ayn Rand

“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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

— Oscar Wilde