Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

We treat our dogs as if they were 'almost human': that is why they really become 'almost human' in the end.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.