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Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
— Swami Vivekananda
Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.
— Bertrand Russell
What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
— Oscar Wilde
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
— Carlton J. H. Hayes
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
— William Hazlitt
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
— C.S. Lewis
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
— Michel De Montaigne
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
— John Steinbeck
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight
— Mark Twain
How could such a powerful animal possess so generous a temperament as to carry man obediently and thoughtfully through the ages
— Shania Twain
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
— John Steinbeck
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.
— H.L. Mencken
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
— John Ruskin
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
— Francis Picabia
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
— Francis Parker Yockey
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
— David Starr Jordan
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
— Henry George
We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Man may be defined as the animal that can say 'I,' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
— Erich Fromm
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
— Oscar Wilde
There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
— Otl Aicher
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset