Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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.
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.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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