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“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.”

Way Mean Soul Animal Emotional Bears Witness Contradiction Feminine Distraction Perpetual Sensibility Unseen Hunters Egotism Hunted Evasion Outburst Coquetry Emotional Outbursts

Book:The Impostor

Source: The Impostor

“Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.”

World Humans Animal Terrible Weak Insult Contradiction Dominant Perversion

Author:Muriel Barbery

“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”

Men Way Hands Three Belief Enjoy Sides Animal Fire Prejudice Crowds Hills Grades Contradiction Agreement Thinker Cows Pointing Shouting Gregarious

Author:William Golding

“Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Doe States Problem Home Animal Results Existence Harmony Constant Solve Paradise Contradiction Existential Disequilibrium

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness