Humor Quote by 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

“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and…

— Frank Sheed

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

— Allen MacDiarmid

“Animals are irrational men”

— Safir Kassim Booudjelal

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

— Anonymous

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but…

— Oscar Wilde

“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand…

— H. G. Wells

“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…

— C.S. Lewis

“But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking…

— Emil Cioran

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

— Thomas Jefferson