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“My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.”

My Own Animal Mystery Painting Reflection Companion Muse Nature And Animals

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”

People World Believe Mean Reason Body My Own Animal Dog Materials My Friends Cat Horse Communicate Reason Why Constructs My Dog Spectators Material World Cat And Dog

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.”

Left My Own Animal Eating Complexes Scrap

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.”

Thinking Men Heart Country My Own Animal Race Conditions My Heart Shots Heavy Driven Treated Outlaw

Author:Chief Joseph

“My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.”

My Own Animal Quiet Hobbies Animal Love Needlework

Author:Betsy Byars

“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.”

Writing Mind Firsts Heart Book Matter Hard Use Eye Opportunity My Own Animal Seeing Movement Office Findings Understood Function Difficulty Dissection

Author:William Harvey

“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

My Own Decision Animal Compassion Healthy Concerned I Realized Diets Vegetarian Vegan Consumption Vegetarianism Animal Compassion Vegan Diet

Author:Davey Havok

“Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.”

People World I Can Shows Home My Own Perfect Animal Race Masters Conquer Hunting Jungle Despised Hunted Conquer The World

Author:Ed Wood

“My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.”

Able My Own Animal Accepting Killing Doctrine Ahimsa Entirety

Book:Hindu Dharma

Source: Hindu Dharma

“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.”

People Knows World Way Trying Humans Reason Asks My Own Animal Strange Beast Fascinating Human Animal

Author:Andrew Neel

“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.”

“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Force Wish Goal Realizing My Own Decision Animal Roles Subjects Policy Objects Depends Decided Instruments Slave Incapable Doers Conceiving External Forces

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”