Philosophy Quote by Victor Hugo

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the…

— Victor Hugo

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

— Charles Darwin

“It was Spring—Spring, when the whole creation feels blasé to drowsiness; cheerful to ecstasy. The cat forgets to pounce on the mice.”

— Sōseki Natsume

“ALAS,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…

— Franz Kafka

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

— Dante Alighieri

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I…

— Franz Kafka

“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than…

— G.K. Chesterton

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

— Warren Eckstein

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

— Paul Gray

“The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.”

— Steven Millhauser

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Of all the things God created, from sunrises and rainbows, to black holes and humor, cats are the most fascinating to me.
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— Jarod Kintz