“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.”
Source: The Works Of Alexander Hamilton
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Founding Father of the United States 1757–1804Related quotes
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: 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.
“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
“Man is a reasoning animal.”
Rationale enim animal est homo.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us
“It was a room where you had no reason for sitting in one place rather than in another.”
Ch. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=A2wOAAAAQAAJ&q=%22It+was+a+room+where+you+had+no+reason+for+sitting+in+one+place+rather+than+in+another%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage
Middlemarch (1871)
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)