The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
You have to train a dog to think.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.
You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.