To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
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.
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.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.