Warren Buffett Quotes

We may be human, but we're still animals.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

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.

I do think on some basic level we are animals, and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

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

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.