“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?” IfsMenShouldReasonFeelingsBeliefSpeakSocialNaturalMy OwnAnimalPowerfulMoralMoralityPagesEthicsBasesProfoundSentimentsThinkerVentureInnateHesitationMillsUtilitarianUtilitarianism Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.” NeedsWritingFirstsHumansMeanRealLanguageAnimalViewsCenturyEvolutionPagesTwentiesSpeciesInvisibleBeastImaginaryAccurateExtinctionWhat It Means To Be Human Author:John Felstiner
“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.” IfsCertainAnimalWrittenDogFlowerHairBrokenFinePagesMadDistanceChineseDividedPigsBrushesFabulousEmperorMermaidCamelsClassificationEncyclopediaVasesStray Dogs Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.” WorldWellsStillsCoursesAsksAnimalEventsDivinePagesAffairPostsProphetInsightfulEntertainingForeign AffairsWorld EventsHairstylist Author:Andrew Bacevich
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.” MenWorldMindBookDifferentUseFacesYoungGirlUniverseMy OwnAnimalBoysDoorsThousandPagesWindowTreatsSpreadPrintedPledgeVisitingDifferent WorldsBoy And GirlMy Own WorldDifferent Faces Author:Cornelia Funke
“Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.” HumansImportantAnimalPagesTrainingRepetition Author:Yann Martel