Man may be defined as the animal that can say “I,” that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Man is an unoriginal animal.
Man is an animal that, so long as he lives amongst others of his species, stands in need of a master.[Der Mensch ist ein Tier, das, wenn es unter andern seiner Gattung lebt, einen Herrn nötig hat.]
Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
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.
Four legs good, two legs better!
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts, which in us would be called moral.
Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals.
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that’s why we get along…
