An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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