Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Francis Parker Yockey

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North Whitehead

Man has been adjudged a social animal.
Francis Wright

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Don Van Vliet

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles

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 a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford