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We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest! – Kyle Short

The doctors tell us of a physical disease called fatty degeneration of the heart… there is a moral malady—fatty degeneration of the soul; sooner or later it attacks every man, however noble his career, who puts self forward in his aims; who values fame because a personal possession. – Frank Lee Benedict, The Price She Paid, 1882

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I “should” be doing. – Lonzo Idolswine

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin — different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business. – Bernard Stonehouse

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied. – William Ellery Channing, Lecture II on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. – Ashley Montagu

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. – Benjamin Disraeli

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. – Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

Evolution: that last step was a doozy! – Terri Guillemets, 1988 September, biology journal

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com