animals Quotes

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never... ...

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have... ...

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory... ...

Some animals make a loud sound. Some are quiet, and others have a voice, which sometimes can be put into words; other times it cannot. There are also noisy animals and quiet animals, musical and unmusical types, but they are... ...

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed... ...

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.