Quotations About / On: ANIMAL

  • 41.
    The angelic ones
    Speak of the soul, the mind. It is
    An animal.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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  • 42.
    He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 243, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 43.
    There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
    (Henry Fielding (1707-1754), British novelist, dramatist. Amelia, bk. 9, ch. 10 (1751).)
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  • 44.
    Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
    (Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 93, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).)
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  • 45.
    "And you each gentle animal
    In confidence may bind,
    And make them follow at your call,
    If you are always kind."
    (Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879), U.S. author, editor, feminist. Mary's Lamb (l. 21-24). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 46.
    Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
    (Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist. Man for Himself, ch. 3 (1947).)
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  • 47.
    The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech given to the American Peace Society, Boston, Massachusetts. "War," (1838).)
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  • 48.
    Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
    (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. Notebooks, "Mind and Matter," (1912).)
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  • 49.
    Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
    (William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "Lecture 1," Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819). This passage was copied and inserted in the notebooks of Adlai Stevenson.)
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  • 50.
    The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Wealth," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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