Animal Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with…

— Daniel Webster

“MARSYAS:        Beware! Easily trips the big word "dare." Each man's an Œdipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the Sphinx, Will,…

— Aleister Crowley

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

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

— Anonymous

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

— Mark Driscoll

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he…

— Annie Besant

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

— Thomas Jefferson