Animality Quotes

#1. The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#2. Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

Rajneesh

#3. We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.

David Abram

#4. There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends.By the aid of animality,indolence,impurity,corruption,and confusion of thought a man descends.

James Allen

#6. Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.

Jack Henry Abbott

#8. If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion? ... Is love incompelete without it? ... Is love the name of physical excersize ?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#9. They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.

Joseph Fink

#10. George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

George Meredith

#11. Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Richard Adams

#12. Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Mathieu Amalric

#13. What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#14. Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.

Munia Khan

#15. We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

Simon Critchley

#16. I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

Robert Breault

#17. We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is a thing (a tangible structure rather than an abstract process) and the other is that memory is a thing (one memory rather than many memories).

Kenneth L. Higbee

#18. My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

Ted Danson

#19. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.

Girdhar Joshi

#20. Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

David Jeremiah