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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

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

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...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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Man, an animal that makes bargains.

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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

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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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Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

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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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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Animal Quotes , Envy Quotes

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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