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“We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.”

Feels Animal Cry Tears Delight Pity Reasoning Sheer

Book:With Love and Irony

Source: With Love and Irony

“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”

Men Reason Humanity Animal Reasoning Reasonable

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!”

Mind Facts Form Animal Sticks Reasoning

Book:Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times

Source: Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times

“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.”

Wells Courses Born Animal Brain Emotional Areas Reasoning Intuitive Interacting Overlapping Throttle

Author:Michael Longley

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”

Thinking Men Animal Claims Reasoning Disputes

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings