Mother Angelica Quotes

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

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

My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

Basically, we are all chimps. The human side is at the front of our forehead, but the chimp is the part that lashes out. When I play, I am completely chimp-orientated.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.