“Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.”

“A MAN FEARED

A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.”

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

“Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is, the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.”

Mary Astell (1666–1731) English feminist writer

“The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.”

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.

“Of all heroes, Spinoza was Einstein's greatest. No one expressed more strongly than he a belief in the harmony, the beauty, and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.”

John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist

“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.
'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods