Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
