Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.