Animal Quote by William C. Brown

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

— Erich Fromm

Man is a reasoning Animal.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm

“But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he…

— Abraham Maslow

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

— Diogenes

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such…

— Aldous Huxley

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique…

— Storm Jameson

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a…

— Anton Szandor LaVey