“The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.” MenHumansArtSoulReasonBodyFormLawAnimalDivineHe ManSeekingPreservesEverlastingHuman BodyFoldsHuman SoulPilgrimageMansionsManifoldInfamyDivine Law Author:Georg Hermes
“In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.” WorldHumanityEvilGivenAnimalFateExerciseCreaturesResponsibleFellowsSeekingBitterOrganismsIngenuity Author:Ernest Becker
“The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.” ChildrenBodyCoursesGoalPleasureAnimalSubjectsPersonalityCapableConscienceFundamentalsSeekingInstanceOrganizedUrgesAppetiteExclusiveRenunciationInfantilePostponementPleasure Seeking Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.” HumansAnimalCommonExistenceKnownFishesSeekingBoundariesRejoiceLaboratoryTanksKinship Book:The Dispossessed Source: The Dispossessed
“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.” ActionPainLife IsPleasureAnimalCommonClassConcernedSeekingBeastAvoidingAnimal LifeAvoiding PainBodily FunctionsBodily Pain Author:Saint Augustine