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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. the woodkeeper Annable's motto, in The White Peacock, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1911).)
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I am afraid that the animals regard man as a creature like themselves which has lost its sound animal wits in a most dangerous way—that they regard him as the deranged animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 510, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, "Third Book," aphorism 224, "The Animals' Criticism," (1882).)
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason—as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. The Gay Science, aphorism 224 (revised edition 1887).)
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Man is by nature a political animal.
(Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ch. 2, sct. 1253a (c. 343 B.C.).)
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I am not an animal!
(Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), U.S. director, screenwriter. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), Spartacus, having been captured, imprisoned, and provided with a mate (1960).)
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Man is naturally a political animal.
(Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ch. 2, sct. 1253a (c. 343 B.C.), trans. by William Ellis (1912).)
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Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. (1896). "Man's Place in the Animal World," p. 211, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, Library of America (1992).)
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
(Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political theorist, social philosopher. Grundrisse, notebook 1, sct. 1 (1857-1858).)
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Considerations by the Way," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
(Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), U.S. mathematical linguist, philosopher, psychologist, political critic. Language and Mind, p. 66 (1968).
A part of the author's "Cartesian" theory that human language capacity is innate.)
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