Best animal & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”

Firsts Mother Love Is Animal Existence Delight Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.”

Knows Men Humanity Born Animal Existence Unique

Author:Storm Jameson

“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”

“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

Humans Form Animal Existence Human Life Poetry Is

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

Men Should Reason Animal Existence Produce Perfection Instinct Others Happiness

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”

Years Firsts Long Self Moving Joy Mother Term Love Is Animal Existence Delight Range Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Suppression Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir. A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.”

May Littles Moments Past Moving Animal Existence Happened Creation Materials Plant Extraordinary Tiny Bags Chemicals Entity Heirs Bundles Nutrients

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.”

Has Beens Individual Perfect Animal Existence Creation Creatures Goodness Mercy Species Proof Treated Proportion Faculty Mercy Of God

Author:Maimonides

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”

Source: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth

“[St. Francis] looked upon creation with the eyes of one who could recognize in it the marvelous work of the hand of God. His solicitous care, not only towards men, but also towards animals is a faithful echo of the love with which God in the beginning pronounced his 'fiat' which brought them into existence. We too are called to a similar attitude.”

Men Hands Eye Care Animal Existence Attitude Creation Faithful Echoes Marvelous Hands Of God

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”

Christ Animal Common Existence Share Creatures Angel All Things Stones Embrace Plant Sensations Transformed Fullness

Author:Bonaventure

“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”

Knows Men Way May Pleasure Animal Money Existence He Man Higher Highest Experiments Planes Sensations Avarice Thrift Ascending

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.”

Men World Hate Animal Existence Objects Consequence Hatred Endure

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.”

Real Individual Animal Common Existence Property Plant Species Chains

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.”

Ifs World Humans I Can Today Human Beings Animal Existence Clear Plant Species Poison Finishing Disappearance Density

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.”

Humans Animal Common Existence Known Fishes Seeking Boundaries Rejoice Laboratory Tanks Kinship

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”

Animal Existence Cat Regard Wheels

Author:Andrew Lang

“Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.”

Men Matter Home Spiritual Culture Prayer Animal Existence Struggle Weapons Survival Bird Hunger Praying To God Militant God Prayer Weaponry Struggle For Existence

Author:Frank Capra

“For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.”

Men Political Animal Existence Modern Capacity Modern Man

Author:Michel Foucault

“The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.”

Men Humans Animal Race Existence Destiny Progress Conditions Changed Morality Authority Code Human Race Gaps Permanence Separating

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.”

Men Feels Moments Helping Together Opportunity Speak Animal Existence Responsibility Trouble Horror Ethics Misery Reverence Prompts Reverence For Life Recompense

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.”

Men Trying Problem Animal Existence Stupid Solve Vain

Author:William C. Brown

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Animal Existence Roles Activity Anxiety Female Males Related Different Kinds Ownership Dominance Specialization Male Dominance

Author:Terence McKenna

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