Dalai Lama Quotes, Animal Quotes, Survival Quotes

The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.

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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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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Nature Quotes , Animal Quotes

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

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

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Tags : Adela Popescu Quotes , Summer Quotes , Animal Quotes

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Eye Quotes , Animal Quotes

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

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Man, an animal that makes bargains.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Animal Quotes , Class Quotes

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Animal Quotes

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Heart Quotes , Animal Quotes

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Animal Quotes

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Animal Quotes , Light Quotes

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

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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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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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Animal Quotes , Feels Just Quotes

In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Spring Quotes , Animal 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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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Animal Quotes , Had Enough Quotes

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cat Quotes , Animal Quotes