Animal Quote by Remy de Gourmont

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

— William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.

— William C. Brown

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

— James Tiptree Jr

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the…

— John Muir

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

— Jean Kerr

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

“In dim ways he recognized in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild. Not alone…

— Jack London