“Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.” MenChildrenDifferentImaginationAnimalCreativeIntellectualMen And WomenWeakIntellectActiveFormerFancyLatterFacultyPossessedPassiveGreat Imagination Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.” MenFirstsFactsUnderstandingDifferencesAnimalLatter Author:Theophrastus
“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.” IfsMenLittlesAnimalBrainExampleHigherSeriesLatterBarriersImpossibilityApesCerebralRodents Book:Man's Place in Nature Source: Man's Place in Nature