Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
Mark Twain
Related Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru... MARK TWAIN Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. HAL HOLBROOK Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his g... ARISTOTLE Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his... ARISTOTLE Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve ERICH FROMM Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ERICH FROMM Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gather... MARK TWAIN Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on ea... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float up... ANATOLE FRANCE Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the di... WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff... WILLIAM HAZLITT What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff... WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the differ... WILLIAM HAZLITT Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satis... ERICH FROMM Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man is so intelligent animal on earth that if he was empowered as much as God, he would start battli... VIKRANT PARSAI Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h... WOODROW WILSON Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innoce... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone f... GEORGE SANTAYANA It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the wood... BENJAMIN RUSH Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance wit... OSCAR WILDE If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's relig... WILLIAM BARCLAY He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,... FRANCES WRIGHT A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social ... JOSEPHUS DANIELS Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he... SAMUEL BUTLER Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up a... ADLAI E. STEVENSON And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousnes... ERNEST BECKER The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is re... EMILY CARR Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracle... NORMAN GEISLER Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfi... HENRY GEORGE Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventua... JEAN KERR One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon... OSCAR WILDE Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of do... WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doub... WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit... HENRY MILLER All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits... HENRY MILLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat SAMUEL BUTLER Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he ... STORM JAMESON Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he... STORM JAMESON Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues th... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instin... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no... NOAH WEBSTER If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he i... WILL DURANT Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; ... EMILE DURKHEIM Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl... MAHATMA GANDHI If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage. SHIRA ANTHONY He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it was... LEROY ADCOCK The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The se... DONALD A. HANSEN A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti... LEO TOLSTOY Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is....it is the indomitable spirit within tha... STEVEN LANG The Ass and His Purchaser
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that
he should... AESOP A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the ... AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. SUZY KASSEM A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti... LEO TOLSTOY Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the tru... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What ... ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL The man who masters his thoughts, masters himself; and it is only on that journey that his potential... RDAMBITION Man is not only a social animal, but he often socializes for a sole purpose of eating and cheating. DR HITESH C SHETH A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part WILLIAM HAZLITT Look through the heavy pine forest and see a fire glowing. Beside it sits a bear of a man, knife in ... AMY KUIVALAINEN What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or... CATHERINE CROWE Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there... L. RON HUBBARD Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT He who, without being a student, gains his livelihood by ,wearing the dress of a student, takes upon... GURU NANAK Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ADAM FERGUSON A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time... GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug... G. K. CHESTERTON Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no ... JOHN TYLER Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no l... JOHN TYLER When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n... ERNEST BECKER Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ... JOHN TYLER We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if... PABLO PICASSO Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder... THOMAS JEFFERSON When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is... MAX ERNST Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and t... HERBERT M. SHELTON would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ... ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends b... LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ... LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ... LARRY MCMURTRY Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. MARK TWAIN Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. MARK TWAIN He shot into the air because he was a very religious man, and he knew if he took his own life he wou... SANDRA ANGLE Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is n... PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... JOHANN VON GOETHE It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. JOSEPH CAMPBELL Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas... LIN YUTANG
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