Voltaire Quotes, Nature Quotes, Animal Quotes

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Animal Quotes

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Animal Quotes , Feelings Quotes

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Animal Quotes , Mass Quotes

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!

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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

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To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Animal Quotes , Philosopher Quotes

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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