Animal Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

Man is the creature of circumstances.

— Robert Owen

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many…

— John Rawls

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 the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the…

— Rollo May

Man is a reasoning Animal.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

— Hans Morgenthau

MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share…

— Billy Graham

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

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible…

— C. Wright Mills

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 not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

— Anonymous