Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
Unamuno, Miguel de. Tragic Sense of Life. Translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch, Macmillan and Co., 1921, p. 3.
We know now that a number of animals other than humans both reason AND have feeings. Octopus, elephant, crows are just 3 species other than the monkeys and apes. In 1913, this was not realized.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.