“I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.” KnowsMenFormAnimalOpinionGreaterTreeCreaturesStonesInfinitePlantCompareRangeCowsContrastDefiniteMonkeysDeitiesSplinters Book:Memories, dreams, reflections Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.” FeelsChildrenJoyAnimalSourceMembersConnectionsSpeciesPetUnconditional LoveContrastIntuitiveUnconditionalArtificeDealings Author:Frans de Waal
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.” PeopleMenTryingBodyPainScienceReligionAnswersAnimalDesignOughtSorrowBehaviorConcernCellsFasterBehaveTelling The TruthContrastAirplaneQuestsMoleculesInsulin Author:Warren Weaver
“In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.” ThinkingWorldWayHumansLongDoeStoriesOrderNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalNormalEatingLong TimeHarmonyHungryControlledContrastNatural WorldUnnaturalBreedingNatural Order Author:Sam Keen