Animals Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals
“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals” — Michelangelo Saez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals” — Michelangelo Saez Copy Share Image
“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from… — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals” — Michelangelo Saez Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a… — Peyton J Glenn Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image