Best animal & purpose Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.”

Humans Two Humor Seems Funny Purpose Human Beings Animal Party Greater Example Capacity Dinner Invention Boredom Bores Epic Metaphysics Dinner Party Epic Poems

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.”

Doe Political Purpose Animal Speech Political Animals

Author:Aristotle

“So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.”

Should Seems Purpose Causes Animal Car Survival Female Species Males Finals Possession Active Strongest Receiving Contests Exclusive Horns Adversaries Thrust Chivalry Stags

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.”

Men Humans States Mother Purpose Fall Belief Animal Casts Convinced Flesh Firm Curse Feeding Vegetarianism Shameful Infirmity Perversity Firm Beliefs

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man.”

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”

Looks Purpose Opportunity Animal Offers Stranger Encounters Disappoint Visitors Zoos Sideways Flicker

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.”

Source: The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith

“The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.”

Reason Purpose Perfect Animal Mere Vanity Shade Disgusting Shameful Fur Lipstick Cosmetics

Author:Laura Mennell

“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.”

Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.”

Way Made Purpose Difficult Animal Compassion Industry Creatures Program Creator Vegan Animal Rights Experimentation Living Creatures Obtaining Vivisection Conceiving

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.”

Mean Two Ends Body Purpose Universe Individual Animal Support Produce Plant Species Admire Mechanism Advancing Artifice Propagation

Book:The Essential Adam Smith

Source: The Essential Adam Smith

“We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remainswe can't know.”

Knows Want Enough Facts Purpose Dies Wish Animal Knowing Alive Creatures Smart Remains Existential Unlucky

Book:The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

Source: The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.”

Humans Purpose Animal Race Hell Strange Dignity Human Race Hops Torpedoes

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.”

Men Mean Two Different Used Purpose Next Animal Common Generations Information Ordinary Tradition Enjoyed Internals Transfers Heredity

Book:The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists

Source: The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists

“The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.”

“A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.”

Different Purpose Animal Economic Rewards Rising Department Establishment Academic Economist Incentives Jacob Hounds Reinforcement Truffles

Author:Charlie Munger

“To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.”

Men Purpose Interest Animal Rights Protect Attributes Justification

Author:Alex Epstein

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