Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Animal Quotes, Thinking 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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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Would Be Quotes

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

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What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

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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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Animal Quotes

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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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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First be a good animal.

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

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

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

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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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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Animal Quotes , Compassion 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

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Animal Quotes , Drunk Quotes

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.

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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Animal 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

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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Animal Quotes