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«God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
| Keywords:
all powerful, animals, Animal World, architect, Creator, distinguish, faculty, Faculty of, impressed, proper, The Faculty
«A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.»
Author: Robert Southey
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Animal World, In the Garden, rosebud, rosebuds, The Animal
«Men! The only animal in the world to fear.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals,
Fear,
Mankind
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
animal, animals, Animal World, belong, belong to, eternal, half, half time, humans, inhabit, inhabits, spirit, spirits, spirit world, The Eternal
«If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Dignity,
Mankind,
Theory,
Truth
| Keywords:
Animal World, at present, Darwin, degrade, far left, in advance
«All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
Animal World, evasion, evasions, refused, The Animal
«Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.»
«It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny dog.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amazing, animals, Animal World, carried, diseases, feared, smallest, tiny
«As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Instinct
| Keywords:
Animal World, carries, instinct, neck, rein, reined, reins, The Animal, The Traveler, throws, traveler, trusts
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