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“The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”

Men Soul Reason Passion Three Animal Divided Possessed

Author:Pythagoras

“If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.”

Ifs Needs Looks Whole Happens Individual Community Animal Watches Return Rewards Sensitive Divided Consistently Arrangements Beneficial Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.”

Men Individual Animal Plant Species Divided Minerals

Book:The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

Source: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.”

Ifs Certain Animal Written Dog Flower Hair Broken Fine Pages Mad Distance Chinese Divided Pigs Brushes Fabulous Emperor Mermaid Camels Classification Encyclopedia Vases Stray Dogs

Author:Jorge Luis Borges