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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. -- Anatole France
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Orson Welles
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. -- Bertrand Russell
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness. -- Thomas Keating
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe. -- Anatole France
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. -- Thomas Jefferson
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. -- Will Durant
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. -- John Wilmot
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. -- Marcus Aurelius
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. -- C. S. Lewis
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice -- Mortimer Adler
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior. -- C. S. Lewis
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses. -- William Cobbett
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. -- Oscar Wilde
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe. -- Steven Pinker
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." -- Oscar Wilde

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