“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”
“Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.”
“Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal human--Zarek”
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”