Voltaire Quotes, Animal Quotes, Law Quotes

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Reading Quotes , Animal Quotes

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Animal Quotes

And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Dog Quotes , Animal Quotes

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

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What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Animal Quotes

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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