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“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.”

“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.”

Reason Parent Animal Extraordinary Senses Irrational Superiority Offspring Deficiency

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.”

Men Body Individual Religious Animal Moral Creation Higher Intellectual Perfection Intelligent Responsible Senses Superiors Faculty Denied Exhibits Combining Individual Power

Author:George Combe

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just do. It's more difficult to stand by your convictions and have people berate you on both sides and feel like there's no home for you.”

People Feels Home Difficult Sides Animal Easier Conviction Senses Appeals Both Sides Just Do It Hedonistic

Author:LeCrae

“[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.”

Mind Animal Common Intellectual Senses Dumb Contemplation

Author:Anthony John Patrick Kenny

“The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.”

World Humans Soul States Beautiful Spiritual Human Beings Animal Intellect Senses Contemplation Contemplative

Book:Raja Yoga

Source: Raja Yoga

“Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.”

Ifs Soul Light Earth Animal Wall Creatures Areas Plant Senses Reflecting Deficiency Plants And Animals Light Of Love

Author:Suzy Kassem