Rational Animals Quotes

#1. But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

Gottfried Leibniz

#2. Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

Haruki Murakami

#3. Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. They wonder what is wrong with our country, but isn't it fairly obvious that if children are being treated like animals instead of rational beings, as adults they'll respond like monkeys?

Wen Spencer

#5. Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

John Bunyan

#6. Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Julian Baggini

#7. I make more money than I need, ever.

Jenna Marbles

#8. The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Emile M. Cioran

#9. Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#10. I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline - combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

Nora Roberts

#11. When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. What do we have here? Is my super-hot assassin boyfriend freaked out by clowns?

Jus Accardo

#13. Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both.

Aldous Huxley

#14. Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

David Ben-Gurion

#15. He wanted to pull her inside his skin and carry her around close to his heart.

Cooper McKenzie

#16. We are not rational animals; we are rationalizing animals.

Hugh Howey

#17. We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Carl Jung

#18. Many birds and beasts are ... as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

Leigh Hunt

#19. Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.

Beatrice Sparks

#20. We are irrational animals trained to be rational.

Ben Tolosa

#21. Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Elliot Aronson

#22. Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

Tina Fey

#23. There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.

Warren Eyster

#24. They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Gary L. Francione