Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thrill Quotes

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

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It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Animal Quotes

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Anxiety Quotes

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Animal Quotes

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Animal Quotes , Action Quotes

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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