Animals Quote by Theodore Dreiser

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason.

— AB

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....”

— Sigmund Freud

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…

— Henry Beston

“Our civilisation is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that…

— Theodore Dreiser

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired…

— Philipp Meyer

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with…

— Henry Beston

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

— Sigmund Freud

“Considered interrupting them to note that the entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement—from animal instinct toward rational thought, from…

— Philipp Meyer

Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base…

— Amish Tripathi

We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and…

— Henry Beston

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton