Matthew Fox Quotes

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

Animals are good to think with.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.