Best animal & higher Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.”

World Two Facts Form Animal Atheism Planets Evolution Higher Drama Creator Positive Atheism Passing Passings Atmosphere Explanation Aspiration Soil Soar Creeps Propensity Two Worlds

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.”

Firsts Age Animal Higher Mountain Structure Invention Kingdoms Cells Organs Worms Tissues Animal Kingdom Cellular

Author:John M. Tyler

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!”

Animal Higher Aim Instinct Pigs Monkeys

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.”

Knows Humans Self Reason Wanted Animal Higher Blessed Curiosity Faculty Cursed

Book:Living in Hope and History

Source: Living in Hope and History

“While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.”

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Author:George Combe

“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.”

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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

“As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.”

Ifs Men Littles Animal Brain Example Higher Series Latter Barriers Impossibility Apes Cerebral Rodents

Book:Man's Place in Nature

Source: Man's Place in Nature

“When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.”

“Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.”

People Shows Animal Study Violence Crime Higher Areas Abuse Rate Violent Related Variables Slaughterhouses Interpersonal Violent Crimes Crime Rates

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.”

Use Animal Higher Highest Intellectual Instinct Absurd Faculty Bees Criteria

Author:Charles Darwin

“A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.”

Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity

“The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.”

Men Pain Animal Months Higher Teeth Torture Dentist Inconvenience Without Pain

Author:Mark Twain

“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.”

Kind May Stills Form Song Language Animal Brain Vision Higher Activity Capacity Organization Primitive Psychics Triggers Dose Catalyst Emergence Enzymes Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna

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