It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Man is the lowest animal.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies