“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.” MenDoeAnimalDivineExerciseCreaturesAuthorityAbuseBeastDominionDivine RightSacrilegious Author:C. S. Lewis
“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.” WayWantNeedsHumansDoeWisdomActionWiseExerciseCreaturesCapacityHarderMethodIntelligenceIntellect Author:Krista Tippett
“Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.” MindKindKnownMeditationExerciseCreaturesValuableRecalls Author:George Horne
“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 man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” MenHumansWholeLife IsUnderstandingLosesSimpleEffectsStupidHabitExerciseCreaturesFindingsDifficultyWhole LifeInventionIgnorantOccasionsOperationsPerformingExertionWealth Of Nations Book:The Wealth of Nations (illustrated) Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)