Khalil Gibran Quotes, Flower Quotes, Animal Quotes

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Firsts Quotes

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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Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Nature Quotes , Animal Quotes

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

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

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Animal Quotes , Elephants Quotes

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Animal Quotes , Convenience Quotes

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , I Love Him Quotes , Animal Quotes

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Humans Quotes

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Animal Quotes , Self 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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Animal Quotes

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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God looks after children, animals and idiots.

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Children Quotes , Animal Quotes