Animals Quote by Thomas Malthus

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which…

— John Berger

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles,…

— Osamu Dazai

“MAN OCCUPIES A PECULIAR position in the animal kingdom.1Unlike the other higher mammals, he has no species-specific environment,2 no environment firmly structured by his…

— Peter L. Berger

Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by…

— Ernst Haeckel

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human…

— C. S. Lewis

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

— Erich Fromm

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than…

— John Burroughs