Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. Anatole France
If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. Antonio Banderas Cat
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Schwab
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Plato
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. George Orwell
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. Eric Gill Religion
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. Eugene Delacroix Philosophy
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. Steven Soderbergh